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Peof. R. Lsonidas Hamilton, M. D., 

WITH REGARD TO THE NATURE AND 
TREATMENT OF 

Diseases of Hie Liver, Luncs, Bloofl, 

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Pther Chronic Diseases. 




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DISCOVERIES 

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DBPAEALLELED EXPEBIENCE 

OF 

PEOF. S. LEONIDAS HAMILTON, M.D., 

WITH REGARD TO THE NATCTRE AND TREATMENT OF 

Diseases of the Liver, Lip, Bloofl. 

AND 

Other Chronic Diseases; 

CONTAINING, ALSO, 

A. 33iograx>liical iSteetelx of His Xdfe, 

{From Harper's Magazine?) 

\ WITH HIS 

Common Sense Theory of Diseases 

AND THE 

Evidence of his Wonderful Cures. 

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^° All Letters for Prof. Hamilton should be addressed thus : 
R. L. HAMILTON, M.D., 

Post Office Box No. 4952, 

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CAUTION! 

I hereby caution the public against certain persons 
who have taken advantage of my extensive reputation 
and the wonderful efficiency of my new treatment, in 
palming off upon the afflicted, worthless trash of various 
sorts, purporting to be remedies originated and pre- 
pared by R. Leoxidas Hamilton, M.D. For the benefit 
of the public, I will say, once for all, that I DO NOT 
PREPARE, OR OFFER FOR SALE, IN ANY MAN- 
NER, ANY PATENT MEDICINES OR MEDICINAL 
PREPARATIONS OF THAT CHARACTER WHAT- 
EVER, AND I PRONOUNCE ALL SUCH COUNTER. 
FEITS. Those who buy them do so at their peril. The 
only medicines I have any knowledge of are my own 
PRIVATE PRESCRIPTIONS, which I prepare from 
day to day with my own hands for those patients whom 
I examine and prescribe for in person or by correspond- 
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PREFACE 



The reader of this work will at once observe, that the views and 
theory contained in it are quite different from those usually presented 
by the medical profession. They are deductions and discoveries, in 
strict accordance with the latest developments of science ; and though 
new to the world at large, yet they have long been entertained by me 
— and now I send them forth to guide tho sick and suffering into the 
path of health and happiness. My theory and success I calmly 
submit to an intelligent public. Of thi3 success I think no man can 
doubt, for the testimonials given of my cures are not one in a hundred 
of those it has been my pleasure to receive. My experience for years 
has proved the truth of that maxim : " Success makes success ;" for it 
is because some sufferer has obtained relief and cure, that that suffer- 
er has sent us another ; and it is because thousands have been cured, 
that they have recommended to us other thousands. 

I can only promise for the future what I have aimed at in the past 
— an exclusive, persevering and sympathizing interest to cure every 
patient who may apply to me. All the knowledge derived from the 
variety of my cases and long experience will be devoted, with entire 
fidelity, to the afflicted. 



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LIFE OF DR. HAMILTON. 



The likeness of Prof. R. Leonidas Hamilton, facing the title page of 
this little "work, will be recognized as a faithful portrait by numerous 
patients, in every section of the country, who have visited him at his 
office. To thousands of other patients whom he has never seen, and 
who have been treated by him through the medium of correspondence, 
he sends this Portrait and Pamphlet, hoping it may be an acceptable 
reminder of him who has so often had their cases before him, through 
their letters, written by them when afflicted, and ever read by him 
with professional and personal interest, care and solicitude. 

There is another class of persons who may be pleased to give these 
pages a perusal — those in search op health. The sick and afflicted 
rightly desire to know the previous history, character and personal ap- 
pearance of the Physician to whom they are about to confide the ten- 
der interests of life and health. 

For the information and satisfaction of the above-named classes, 
and also for the gratification of the friends of the sick, and of that por- 
tion ot the general public who are, or may hereafter become, interested 
in his Medical Discoveries and world-wide Professional Success, Prof. 
Hamilton begs leave to submit the following Personal Biography. It 
originally appeared in that most reputable and widely circulated of all 
the American magazines, "Harper's Monthly ," from the number of 
which for February, 1S6S, we copy. It is merely an outline sketch ; 
for no one but a physician knows anything of the filling up of the life 
of the faithful medical man, or has any conception of the daily, un- 
ceasing, never done cares which make up the routine of his ever-active 
life. 

From Harper's Monthly, February, 1SGS. 

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" We present our readers with a Biographical Sketch of one of the 

' representative men, 1 not only of New York, but of this country. We 
have the evidence for saying that but few professional men are as wide- 
ly known ; for he has not only medically treated thousands of the af- 

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flicted of every State in the American Union, but also numerous pa- 
tients from all the British Colonies, Mexico, the West India Islands, 
and nearly every part of Europe and the East. Prof. Hamilton would 
be a representative man were he to devote himself to the sciences in 
general, or to mercantile, manufacturing or professional life. The 
marked cranial development and facial expression before the reader 
is one which all would recognize at once as intellectual, energetic and 
executive. 

'"Blood will tell,' oan not be less true of man than of the horse and 
the other domestic animals whose pedigrees we are so careful to con- 
trol. Our race has its own aristocracy — not, in this glorious country, 
always founded in wealth or attained position, but in the inherent 
mental, physical or moral development of the individual — and this 
individuality frequently marking a family through several generations. 
Benjamin West and Vernet would have been artists had they been born 
anywhere. Audubon was a naturalist, Humboldt a philosopher, Na- 
poleon the First a man of god-like energy, and Alexander Hamilton a 
statesman, by virtue of their own natural powers and gifts. 

" The genealogy of R. Leonidas Hamilton can be distinctly traced, 
in common with that of Alexander Hamilton, to Sir David de Hamilton, 
almost five hundred year3 ago ; but whilst the immediate ancestors tf 
Alexander Hamilton lived in the island of Nevis, one of the West In- 
dies, the grandfather of the subject of this sketch was among the early 
settlers of the ' Old Bay State,' from whence several cf his brothers re- 
moved to the central and western parts of the ' Empire State ,' from 
whom have sprung many representatives of the Hamilton family, sev- 
eral of whom are physicians of eminence and marked ability. But he 
of whom we now write, and who is engaged in one of the widest hu- 
manitarian enterprises of the Western Continent, owes nothing to an- 
cestry, unless it be a good brain and that early poverty which com- 
pelled him, while yet a mere boy, to depend upon himself, and to brave 
the world for himself. His immediate ancestors and their relatives 
were men and women of marked physique, tall and erect, with great 
activity of temperament and paramount executiveness. Dr. Ham- 
ilton's father and mother died when he was only nine years cf age, 
and what estate was left fell to the lawyers who settled it, and left our 
hero a struggling orphan boy, and he was placed with an uncle to 
serve his minority upon a farm. But his natural taste and talent now 

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showed itself. Medicine was his chosen and pet study. In mere boy- 
hood he was often sought when the neighboring farmers were sick. As 
soon as be had gathered a few dollars from small accumulations, in- 
stead of squandering it for trifles, he bought bis supply of medicines 
and books — the former for the benefit of his friends when sick, and the 
latter for his own fond study. A rainy day— that only time of rest to 
a fatherless boy apprenticed to a farmer — always found him alone with 
his books and medicines, studying out some difficult ease which puz- 
zled his brain. His studious habits and firm resolve to be a physician 
were opposed by his relatives, which only served as a stimulus to goad 
his energies on. 

" But physical toil and study and discouragements wore upon both 
mind and body. In spite of every effort to rally his strength and 
courage, his stamina was soon gone. Consumption, that insidious and 
fatal disease, belonged to his family, and had taken away, one by one, 
his relatives, and now, at the early age of seventeen, his own health 
showed signs of rapid decline. 

" He was confined to the bed for nearly six months, during which 
time the most eminent physicians were consulted, and all the boasted 
remedies for consumption were used in vain, and he was given up to 
die — the consumptive's death. But spring came, and its genial warmth 
Invited him into the open air. He seemed partially to revive, and 
with his reviving power came the resolve to throw all medicines aside. 
He determined to live at any rate. 

''While taking a short walk one day, a traveling physician — a 
Frenchman — passing by, stopped and conversed Avith him. He told 
him of remedies for his case from the adjacent fields and forests, "with- 
out money and without price,' and only accepted the farmer's house- 
hold hospitalities. From that day strength came to him ; hectic and 
cough left, and soon he ate with the hungry heartiness of a starved, 
growing boy. Hope now lighted and lightened his heart ; and his new 
and true physician made him fully acquainted with the remedies he 
employed, and with their magically restorative effects. He fully re- 
covered, and vowed anew to devote himself to medicine. Saved, him- 
self, he determined to spend his life in saving the lives of his fellow- 
men. At the age of twenty he had read much medicine, whilst yet he 
was only the farmer's apprentice, and he now determined to devote 
himself wholly to his chosen profession. He entered the office of a 

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physician, and afterward studied with another, who devoted his whole 
attention to chronic affections of the liver, lungs and blood. Still per- 
severing, he entered a medical college, from which he graduated with 
such honor that he was soon invited to be Professor of Materia Medi- 
ca, Therapeutics and Pharmacy, and he afterwards held the chair of 
Diseases of Females and Children in the same college. 

" He now entered the field of active general practice of medicine 
and surgery ; and for fifteen years few men visited more families, saw 
a greater variety of diseases, devoted themselves more zealously, or 
independently, or with more singleness of purpose, to cure his patients 
wherever a wide reputation called him. Especially did he investigate 
and pride himself upon his success in cases of incipient consumpticn, 
liver diseases and constitutional weakness — cases which other physi- 
cians dreaded, and which they declared themselves unable to cure. 
Here was his peculiar glory ; not boastful, but gratefully thankful that 
he could cure those patients whose cases were like his own. He in- 
vestigated medicines, especially the vegetable materia medica, with 
enthusiasm, and nothing afforded him so much satisfaction as to 'get 
just the right remedy ' for the patient who consulted him. 

" After being engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for 
so many years, Dr. Hamilton's health failed to such an extent that he 
was compelled to relinquish the out-door, night-and-day, ever-anxious 
and ever-varied work of the general practitioner. His sympathies and 
his tastes, his experience and his success, at once determined him to 
make a specialty of diseases of the Lungs, Liver, and Blood, and other 
chronic diseases. Next, he was to decide where he could do most 
good — where benefit the greatest number. His discerning sagacity 
instantly pointed him to New York city, as the center of the Western 
World. 

" He planned an immense medical business, and secured the most 
competent and eminent physicians, chemists and pharmaceutists in 
the Union ; and all of his vast medical business is daily conducted with 
clock-like regularity, and every department of it is dispatched under 
bis direct and personal supervision. Nothing passes without bis sanc- 
tion. No letters or correspondence are, under any circumstances, 
opened, except by himself. 

" It is now an admitted fact that for many years past Dr. Hamilton 
has made more examinations, and prescribed for more sick people, 

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than any other man in the world. He has evidence to show this. He 
has devoted mnch time and an immense amount of money to the in- 
vestigation of new medicinal agents. He examines so many thou- 
sands of cases annually, by personal examination and by correspond- 
ence, that he is enabled to decide, with the utmost skill and success, 
upon just the right remedies required. His treatment is no one-idea 
patent medicine remedy — no humbug scheme ; but, from a great va- 
riety of the most choice remedies, carefully selected and compounded 
according to his own specific directions, he makes up each prescrip- 
tion from the symptoms and condition of each case of disease, as pre- 
sented. The number of his patients is only limited by his ability to 
see them or to prescribe for them by letter. 

* " As the popular physician with the people of this country, he is to 
them what Stewart and Claflin are as dry goods merchants, or as the 
Harpers and Appletons and Pntnams are as publishers — the representa- 
tive man. Original in his reasonings, decided in his convictions, quick 
in his conceptions, he has done, and can do, an immense labor, accu- 
rately and successfully ; and he is reaping the harvest of gratitude 
from patients in our own and other countries. 

''As before suggested, he has remarkable enthusiasm in the in- 
vestigation of medicinal agents, and has so many patients afflicted 
with the same class of diseases of the Liver, Lungs and Blood, at the 
same time, that he has the best possible opportunity to test the rela- 
tive efficacy and value of remedies ; and herein, perhaps, is one of tee 
strongest features of hi3 wonderful skill, but not by any means the 
only feature. His views of the nature of disease — and especially of 
those to which we have referred — are peculiarly his own. The conclu- 
sions arrived at from investigations made by him years since are now 
fully proved by others to be correct. He was only twenty years in 
advance of his age. His distinctive and peculiar discovery is that the 
liver is as important an organ, as a blood-maker and blood-purifier, as 
the lungs are as blood-r Utilizers — to coin a word expressive of the 
oxygenation of the blood in the latter organs. It is the thorough un- 
derstanding of this specific liter /unction, and of its relation to dis- 
ease, and the discovery and adoption of his own peculiar remedies, 
which have created for him a medical world of his own. Liberal in 
his views of medicine, and ever happy to receive suggestions from 
others, his mind is so sagacious and practical that he scrutinizes with 

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remarkable accuracy, and discriminates what is true in what comes 
before his active brain. Such a man creates faith, makes success, and 
eminently deserves all that world-wide popularity which he has al- 
ready secured, and which is promised to him in the glorious future." 



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The following was composed by William Ross Wallace, the cele- 
brated poet, from hints in an elegant paper presented to Prof. Hamil- 
ton by a committee of eminent physicians as a token of their appre- 
ciation of his noble work : 



A Lifo Ode. 



TO PROF. R. LEOKIDAS HAMILTON, M. D. 



Brother in our grand and sacred calling, not that word of ours 
Can a single new addition give unto your mighty powers, 
Nor that we can twine a single new leaf in the wreath of Fame, 
That has grown, and Btill is growing, on your world-acknowledged 

name, 
Do we thus, at last, address you — we who blindly did so long 
War against your certain Healing — doing real Science wrong ; 
Not for these we waft you greeting, but injustice to the Plan 
That your Inspiration, Study, offers for the Ills of Man ! 
Yes, triumphant offer, giving ten3 of joyous thousands Wealth, 
Richer than all golden ingots, in the Eden Rose of Health ; 
Health that is the great foundation for the Muscle, Mind and Heart, 
Leading into every Science, giving luster to all Art. 
With it only Man has manhood, sees his forces surely hurled 
On the broad, rude breast of Matter toimparadise a world. 
0, without it what's existence ? How philosophy must die, 
All unread Earth's mystic volume and Star-Libraries on high. ' 

What the ponderous brain of Statesman? What the earnest Preach- 
er's fire ? 
What the Patriot- Hero's saber ? What the ardent Poet's lyre ? 
What the eager man of business? Lashed by Fiend Disease's rod, 
What to Man is Earth ? A Desert, though so opulent made by God. 
But Disease's Demon banished, how majestically he stands, 
Little lower than the Angels, with sound brain and stalwart hands 1 

Brother ! those the truths so startling that you pondered long ago, 
How for Remedy you labored as you wept o'er Human woe ! 
How ycu saw the Blood, the very fountain of the Human Life ; 
There it icas that with the Demon must be waged the saving strife, 
From the Regal Blood all Poison must be driven ; it must roll 
Free, and Pure, and Strong, and Steady, as the God-protected pole. 
0, how solemnly you questioned Science on her moveless throne, 
" What's Jfain Purifier, Strainer of the Blood within its zone ? " 



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Questioned not with mere lips only, but with conscientious work, 

Toiling bravely as a Christian, never dreaming as a Turk, 

Soon you found the great true answer, Science opening wide her 

book. 
"Earnest, Human-loving Searcher, to the central Liver look, 
Nor the Lungs discard in treatment ; go on as you have begun, 
And Humanity by thousands will bless Nature's Hamilton!'''' 

But the Remedy ? Not Mineral : it, at most, lulls the ill ; 

Even if it may cure sometimes, opens way for worse ones still ; 

Yes, the Vegetable gives it, root, and stem, and leaf, and flower, 

Innocent as Eden-foliage, though so mighty in their power? 

Were and are they not? Speak thousands — ye who our wise brother 

sought, 
And proclaim to those yet suffering all the victory he wrought ! 
Tell how fladthe sallow, yellow color from the skin or face — 
Nature's own red roses, lilies, taking their heaven- ordered place ; 
Fled all Drowsiness and Dullness ; bitter, bad taste in the mouth, 
Frequent Headache, heat internal, and the throat's Zahara drouth ; 
Fled the heart's wild palpitation ; Cough so teasing and so dry ; 
Appetite unsteady, viands hateful to the taste and eye : 
Sour Stomach, with a raising of the food ; and in the throat 
Horrible Sensation, Choking over which a fiend would gloat; 
Heaviness of Vomiting, or Pain in sides, or back or breast ; 
Colic Pain and Soreness through the heated bowels, without rest; 
Constipation of the bowels, Diarrhoea, aching Piles; 
In extremities a Coldness, deep as felt by Arctic Isles, 
To the head a swift blood rushing, Female Weaknesses the worst ; 
Spirits low, Forebodings gloomy, as if by black doom accursed, 
Irritable and Desponding— nothing bright in all the world, 
And a very nuisance, eve^ rainbow's peace symbolic curled, 
Yes, our Brother ! these the Miseries that your chartered skill has 

slain, 
Not forgetting fell Consumption and her diabolic train. 
Brother ! if we cr> out " Onward " to the Chemist, to the one 
Piercing down to read Earth's History, mystic daughter of the Sun, 
How much more should we cry " Onward " to the true Physician 

—he 
Who in strong but modest effort probes our great Humanity ? 
This Humanity still subtler than the Elemental thrall, 
For it is the Microcosm of the Macrocosm — all ! 

Onward, then, in Heavenly Mission ! Onward with that piercing eye, 

That can all Diseases Chronic in the Patient's frame descry? 

Onward, with your Heart so feeling, so rejoicing to dispel 

From Humanity Diseases blasphemous, usurping Hell ; 

0, may long, long, LONG your Mission for our aching Race remain, 

Heaven giving you the vigor still to bear the ceaseless strain 

By so many myriad Sufferers forced upon a soul and frame. 

To the Throne of Health devoted, with her Eden-nataled flame ! 



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Onward, with the glad warm blessings of the myriads you save 

Daily from Disease's torture — daily from the early grave ; 

Blessings breathed by Mothers, Fathers, Children, Brothers, Sisters, 

all 
From whose fame restored your Healing drives away the greedy pall ! 
Onward till a blessing holier than is vouchsafed to the sod 
Glows upon you in that country far above ihe ailing Clod: 
Blessings for the true physician, from the First Fhysican — God ! 

Many Physicians. 



EVIDENCE FROM THAT EMINENT POET, WM. ROSS WALLACE, 
OF NEW YORK. 



A Grateful Heart's Acrostic. 



Proud may you be that thus you laureled stand, 
Rich in the praises of our grateful land, 
O'er which your Genius and your science save 
Full many thousands, j'early from the grave ! 

JKver tou see the very central place, 
Evermore cause within the Human Race 
Of fell Disease's ill, the terrible source, 
Not with a pigmy's spite but with a giant's force, 
If it gives not the nttural movement-flows ; 
Dark and corrupt the grave-doomed system grows, 
All helpless as an eagle, nearing death, 
Succumbed beneath a Simoon's poison-breath. 

Hold you the mineral antidote? It kills, 

And only faster death's black stillness fills. 

'■ Mankind," you cried, " Another power must find ; 

In something else is final Rescue shrined. 

Lo, in the Vegetable, Health's from God; 

To it alone breaks the Destroyer's rod ! " 

0, /do know your blest, triumphant skill, 

Now, saved by you from his Demoniac Will ! 

May you long live, more lives thus to prolong ; 

Day after day the Proof how true this grateful song ! 

Dear Doctor, at 546 Broadway: When I felt mj-self cured by 
your truly great skill, working under your true system of medicine, 
I saw that my avowal of my intention to show my gratitude in " A 
Rhyme," was received by you as & passing ejaculation of joy ; but 

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I was in earnest, and I only regret that the necessary shortness of 
an acrostic prevents me from 6tating details of your triumphs, in 
which record would be made of your full success in ridding thousands 
on thousands, of scores of diseases caused by derangement of the 
Liver. My little lyric is sent to you as a matter of bounden duty as 
well as pleasure. God bless you for exertions in your sacred pro- 
fession. W. 



Inventors and Specialists— How Progress 
is Made. 

This is an age of di covery. In all the annals of history there is 
no period described when there were so many and so valuable inven- 
tions. A few years since we all traveled in stage coaches, six or eight 
miles an hour ; now cars, some of which are miniature parlors, carry 
us swifter than race-horses on the track, and steamboats transport us 
to distant cities, during our sleep, in a single night. Two inventors — 
Stevenson, of England, and Fulton, of our own country — have accom- 
plished most of this for us. A few years since, our feet were kept dry 
only by soaking our clumsy boots with tallow ; while now, both the 
most substantial and most fastidious tastes can be satisfied with ex- 
cellent and elegant foot-coverings of rubber; and a Goodyear has 
perfected its manufacture in a hundred utensils and conveniences, for 
the kitchen, the parlor, the nursery, and the study. The genius of 
Morse has invented the telegraph, and the messages of commerce, 
news, legislation, and friendship sweep over the magic wires with 
lightning speed. Not many years since, the greatest of living sur- 
geons, Velpeau, of Paris, told his medical pupils that although 
enthusiasts at different times had vainly imagined that some means 
might be adopted to allay the pain of surgical operations, yet that 
such an idea was entirely chimerical and must eveV remain so. The 
thing, he said, was impossible, and all hopes of it but a vain delusion. 
In five years from that hour, Velpeau amputated limbs, and performed 
other grave operations, whilst his willing patient was sleeping from 
anajsthesia. An American dentist, Dr. Horace Wells, of Hartford, 
Conn., conceived the idea of preventing the pain of surgical opera- 
tions, and first of all took the ether himself, to have a tooth ex- 
tracted. He devoted years to this discovery, with an enthusiasm 
not excelled among ancient or modern inventors or discoverers. 

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Such are a few of the marks of mighty progress in a few years 
of the past. Who made these discoveries ? Always and ever, enthusi- 
asts and specialists. Never has the world seen men more devoted 
to single, definite, specific objects. Stevenson and Fulton loved the 
steam-engine, the steam-car and the steamboat, with all the devotion 
that Napoleon loved the victories of war, or St. Paul the contests for 
the faith on Mars' Hill. Day and night, year after year, did the ever- 
to-be-honored Goodyear, in alternate prosperity, poverty, and prison, 
develop his invaluable discoveries. So with Morse. So with every 
discoverer and inventor. Opposition, old theories, all the knowledge 
of the past, were opposed to each and every one of them. Electricians 
and chemists thought Morse was a fool; surgeons and professors 
ridiculed Wells ; and almost the whole lives of Stevenson and Fulton 
were met with obloquy and contempt. Goodyear was imprisoned for 
debt, and Dr. Wells was so disheartened by ingratitude that he died 
in prison by his own hands ! These men were specialists, and as such 
were denounced as enthusiasts and humbugs and deceivers ; but the 
world will honor them, whilst their opponents will be lost in ignoble 
nothingness and absolute forgetfulness. 

Just so in medicine. Jenner devoted years to the discovery and 
investigation of vaccination, whilst his medical brethren arrayed 
themselves against him in united hatred. 

From these facts— and they are only a few among many that 
might be adduced — we should learn : 

1st. That no man can excel who does not devote his whole ener- 
gies to some one, definite, determined object. 

2d. That such men are always either slighted or opposed by those 
in the same employment or profession. 

3d. That those discoveries which look the most chimerical are often 
the most reliable and valuable, and their authors the greatest benefac- 
tors of their race. 

4th That there is a want of faith which is foolish. Once nobody 
thought these men were wise ; now every person of sense sees at a 
glance that these persons were, each and all, a hundred years in ad- 
vance of their age. The world is full of doubters and sneerers ; but 
the true discoverer should never regard their conduct, but press on to 
the brightest attairments— that he may acquire honor to himself and 
bless mankind. 

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The True Theory of Chronic Diseases. 

WHY ARE WE ilSEASED? 

Sickness is not the natural condition of the human family. Man, 
infinitely raised above all other animals, by his intelligence, his moral 
capacities, and his immortal life, suffers more from disease than all 
other animals. In fact, sickness seems a stranger to all the beasts of 
the field, the birds of the air, and to the sportive Bwimmers in the 
brooks, lakes and oceans. TTe have only the rarest evidence of 
disease among the inferior animals. Whenever the domestic ani- 
mals — our horses, sheep, swine, and cattle — are sick, we can almost 
always ascribe it to the wrongs done to them by man in respect to 
diet, exposure or hardships. 

But how common is sickness to our race ! From the cradle to the 
grave we are constantly liable to it. Indeed, the best writers on 
hygienic and medical topics concede that more than one-half of all our 
race die before they are three years old ! From the cradle to the 
grave our bodies are halting hospitals for the frequent residence of 
disease. 

The average period of humanlife may have increased within the 
past fifty years, because the treatment of disease has improved, and 
neither men nor infants are butchered by blood-letting and depress- 
ing, strength-destroying and poisonous remedies, as formerly ; but 
who will say that the American people are now as strong as were the 
fathers and mothers of the period of the Revolution ! Children were 
far healthier, and men and women were larger and stronger. Dys- 
pepsia was very rare, consumption scarcely heard of, and neuralgia 
unknown. 

Twenty-five years ago the greatest number of deaths were pro- 
duced by fevers and inflammation. To-day five persons die from 
some disease arising from impure blood, or dyspepsia, or exhausted 
nervous debility, or consumption, where one dies from fever. The 
race is smaller, more sickly and sensitive, and have neither the buoy- 
ancy, contentedness, nor strength of those who lived in the days of 
our fathers and mothers. Every man of experience, and every nurse 
of goodly years, will testify to what we say, and every physician 1 
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Why is all this ? The race has changed its climate. Our ancestors 
came from England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany ; and the 
climate there was different. The countries named had a less varied 
temperature, and there are comparatively no malarial influences 
there. Our country is, in almost all sections and at almost all sea- 
sons, exceedingly variable as to the temperature and humidity of its 
atmosphere. To-day it is cool and dry, and to-morrow it is chilly and 
wet, to-day it is hot and dry, and to-morrow it is foggy and swelter- 
ing, or chilly, wet, and raw. The soil, too, is new, and its newly up- 
turned soil exhales the depressing and blood poisonous influences of 
malaria. Vegetable decay, and chilly moisture, and sudden changes 
of the weather, produce internal congestions, and, more than all, they 
develop those bilious affections which prevail in every section of the 
country. Who is not bilious i Who does not have a torpid or diseased 
liver? 

Liver, Lung, and Blood Diseases. 

Dr. Hamilton wishes it distinctly understood that his discoveries 
in reference to the above diseases have not all been made in a single 
month or year. Twenty-five years of unceasing labor have been 
devoted to the daily observation, study and treatment of the above 
diseases, and those ocher chronic diseases which are mostly caused 
by them. During this time more than two hundred and eight thou- 
sand patients have beea under his professional care and treatment. A 
very large proportion of these have been treated by letter. Some may 
suppose that a physician could not obtain a sufficiently accurate 
view of the condition of a sick person by correspondence to treat 
them successfully. My experience proves otherwise ; for some of the 
most remarkable cures of the worst cases have been conducted through 
the medium of letter-writing. In most chronic (or long-continued) 
cases the patient has thought over his own symptoms hundreds of 
times. He has noticed the location of every pain, the time at which 
he was most subject to it, and whether acute or mild, constant or 
occasional, and under what circumstances he was subject to it. He 
has often observed whether he was feverish or chilly, whether he had 
rush of blood to the head, with or without chilliness of the hands and 
feet ; and he knows whether he is full of blood and plethoric, or is pale 



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and bloodless ; and lie always states these matters with common 
sense and accuracy when writing to me ; for he has a very good, if 
not a professional, appreciation of the whole subject of the circula- 
tion of the blood in his case. Just so in regard to digestion. He 
always states whether food distresses him, whether troubled with 
acidity or wind in the stomach, what kind of food agrees with him, 
whether his tongue is bilious and coated, and his mouth troubled with 
bad tastes, or is clean and healthy ; and gives such other facts as lead 
the physician to intelligently and reliably diagnose the actual con- 
dition of the digestive system. 



Patients Know More than the Doctors 
i Think. 

The people are far more Intelligent in these matters than physicians 
suppose, or are willing to allow. Every person of ordinary intelligence 
understands that a coated tongue, bad breath, bad taste in the mouth, 
headache, and sometimes nausea, pain or wind in the stomach, indi- 
cate a morbid condition of the stomach and liver. They do not 
understand precisely in what that condition consists, but they ex- 
press it all in that word — everywhere known — "bilious." Both the 
stomach and liver are subject to numerous diseases, which none but 
the man who has studied the structure and functions and diseases of 
these organs can correctly understand ; but the great difficulty among 
almost all physicians in these cases is that they do not use the right 
remedies. Castor oil, rhubarb, seidlitz powders, soda, magnesia, 
quinine, gentian, bismuth, blue mass and calomel make up the great 
list of their remedies for all chronic diseases of the stomach and 
liver ! A list of agents this, which is nauseous enough to make any 
man sick, and poisonous enough to forever keep him sick J 

The people know their symptoms and their sufferings, but they 
know not their diseases, nor where to go for relief. They write out 
their symptoms just as they feel them, and have felt them for months, 
whether those symptoms refer to the circulation or the lungs, or the 
brain and the spinal system, or the kidneys or other organs. 

We have often noticed another feature : When a physician is ex- , 
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wrong answers or imperfect answers ; or, after the physician has left, 
the patient finds that he has forgotten to give one half of the true 
symptoms. Not so in writing. The patient, or an intelligent friend, 
states just what their sufferings and feelings are, without being em- 
barrassed at all. When he has written it all down, he looks his let- 
ter over again, and sees whether he has omitted any thing, or incor- 
rectly stated any of his feelings, pains or other matters. And so it is 
true, entirely true, that the physician will often get a more exact view 
of his patient's case by a letter than by a personal questioning and 
careful "cross-examination" of his patient. In a letter the patient 
is entirely confidential and true to nature in expressing the symptoms. 
The timid, suffering lady speaks just as she feels and just as she suf- 
fers ; and one great reason why we have so well succeeded in intricate 
and delicate diseases of the nervous system, of the heart, of the liver, 
of the kidneys, uterus and bladder, when, perhaps, the visiting phy- 
sician has entirely failed, has been because the confusion and timidity 
of the lady prevented her from giving that natural statement of her 
case to her physician which she could write, and did write to us in 
her letters. Many such letters are more perfect photographs of dis- 
ease than can be found in the most elaborate and pains-taking medical 
works of French, German and English authors. ' 



Letters Speak the Truth. 

Patients know that all these letters to me are strictly confidential, 
and not made the neighborhood talk through the " blabbing 
doctor " of their village. And from such unreserved and per- 
fectly natural letters I have very often been led to detect 
some obscure valvular disease of the heart, of which they little 
dreamed; or some bilious caluli in the gallduct that never had 
been surmised by their usual physician ; or some fatal kidney disease 
that was, all unknown to them, pouring off the vital forces of life ; or 
some obscure womb disease, from which the victim had suffered for 
months ; or some poison of the blood, inherited or unknowingly caught, 
of which the patient had not the slightest idea ! Hundreds of such 
have been cured by us, who would otherwise have died ; and whose 
disease would have forever remained unknown, unless the physician 

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should have discovered it by an examination after death ! What an 
idea ! To die without our disease being known, and die because our 
disease was not known ! 



Our Experience of Written Symptoms. 

It requires no little experience to judge of the contents of such letters 
correctly. What is necessary is for the patients to state their exact 
feelings. Many symptoms which to them seem important are fre- 
quently not so, but our experience leads us to discriminate. There is 
a tact in this which science cannot teach, nor man define. And yet 
the man who has a natural and instinctive talent will discern, as if by 
some unseen agency, the seat of the disease, and have the intuitive 
sagacity to apply the right remedy. 

How many hours, months and years we have thus spent in reading 
letters from our patients ! No hand but my own ever opens these let- 
ters, and no other eyes arc permitted to see their contents if the case 
be confidential. What mirrors of human suffering ! What records of 
pains and griefs ! What pictures of every disease to which humanity 
is subject ! Is it any marvel that we seize the significant symptoms, 
and interpret rightly from what our patient, whose letter is before us, 
is suffering? Is it any wonder that, with an intuitive glance, we scan 
both the manifest disease, and also the secret enemy, of which the pa- 
tient knows nothing? If we did not, we should be destitute of that 
instinctive sagacity which makes nature's true physician. Can you 
read the very inner thoughts of a friend by the expression of his 
countenance, when he knows not that you are even looking at him ? 
and shall not we be ahle, by both science and natural insight, to divine 
how and from what you suffer ? And after so long an experience, is 
it any wonder that, ever questioning closely the records of science and 
the daily open book of disease in the patients before us, we should 
have made discoveries as to disease ! Years ago an intuitive appre- 
hension of great truths was opened to us, even before we ever taught, as 
a Professor in a Medical College, the facts of medical science. And 
as the great naturalist, Humboldt, learned the aspects of nature by 
traveling in every clime and every country, so we must suppose that . 
we have seen almost every feature of chronic disease to which the hu- t 

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man system is subject. There is no county or city, or scarcely a vil- 
lage in all the mighty domain of our vast country, which is not the 
home of one, or several, of our patients. Our increasing observation 
only strengthened the suggestions of our instinctive views in regard to 
those causes of disease which make up the great mass of human suffer- 
ing. 

Diseases Caused by Liyer Complaint. 

These are most frequent and universally prevalent. Why is this? 
Let us use common sense and look at thi3 matter : 

The human system, the most perfect of all the works of the creator, 
is so constituted that, to be entirely healthy, it must throw off the 
wasie, worn-out and poisonous materials as fast as it takes on new ma- 
terials 'rom our food and drink. The food is assimilated and made 
into nourishing and healthy blood, principally through the offices of 
the stomach, liver and lungs. The worn-out materials are mostly ex- 
creted by the liver, lungs and kidneys ; but all medical men have 
heretofore failed to recognize the vast importance of the liver as a 
blood-purifying and excreting organ. The most learned German phys- 
iologists, who base their assertions upon actual experiments only, 
state that the amount of bile which should be manufactured by the 
liver and poured into the intestines each day is two and one-half 
pounds. All persons interested to know this fact and the experiments 
to prove it may consult Verdaungssaefte und Stafwechsel, Leipzig, 
1632 ; or they may sea a resume of these facts in Prof. Dalton's Phys- 
iology. 

Remember one thing more : The bile is something more than the 
natural physic of the bowels, as has heretofore been taught by emi- 
nent medical men. The bile is mostly made up of the waste matter, 
of the blood— effste, worn-out and injurious materials. If the liver 
doe3 not make this bile and pour it into the intestines daily, it remains 
in the blood as a poison. It poisons the blood itself, and circulates, as 
irritating and poisonous matter in the blood, to every organ in the 
system. 

The blood poisoned with the daily accumulated excess of bile, re- 
turns from the liver to the heart, and the nerve3 of the heart are af- 
fected, and we have an oppressed eeling at the heart, and palpitation ; 

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and if this cause is long continued -we get chronic irritation, undue ex- 
citement, and morbid nutrition of the heart, developing many forms 
of Heart Disease. 

Just so with the Longs. The bile-poisoned blood goe3 from the up- 
per and right cavity of the heart to the lower cavity, and thence di- 
rectly to the lungs, circulating all through those most delicate organs. 
The lung tissues are poisoned and irritated, and they invite the scrof- 
ulous humors of the blood, because they are thus irritated. Hence 
Consumption, which is local scrofula, so defined and proved by Lugol, 
and all the most scientific authors. The lungs try to oxygenize and 
purify the blood, and they do it in a great measure, but they are over- 
worked and irritated, and you smell the blood-poison matters in the 
man's foul breath. Catarrh, Bronchitis, Asthma, Nervous Cough and 
Consumption itself are the results. If the Liver had done its duty, 
made and excreted that bile, the Lungs would not have been dis- 
eased. 

Just so with the blood itself. It goes from the lung3 back to the 
upper left cavity of the heart, thence to the lower cavity, and thence 
through the arteries and capillaries to every organ and tissue of the 
system. Among the most important of those organs is the kidneys, 
furnishing the urinary secretion — a most important excretion. But 
the kidneys themselves are irritated and congested by the presence of 
the bile-poisoned blood — and they become diseased. Every person 
who has had a liver disease, knows that the urine is scanty, high- 
colored, and loaded with red deposits, at times, or other diseased pro- 
ducts. Hence, diseases not only of the kidney, but also of the blad- 
der. 

But this is not all— far from it. The poisonous blood goes also 
from the heart to the brain, and affects the great electrical center of 
all vitality ; and the brain, stimulated by unhealthy blood, cannot 
perform its office healthfully. The person has dullness, headache, 
incapacity to keep his mind on a subject, cannot remember, has a 
crowded and dizzy feeling, is sleepy, becomes nervous, gloomy, easily 
irritated, and often has a bilious or a neuralgic headache. 

And the bloqb itself becomes diseased, and as it forms the sweat 
upon the surface of the skin, it is so irritating and poisonous that the 
person has discolored brown spots, pimples, blotches, and other erup- 
tions, sores, boils, carbuncles, and scrofulous tumors. 

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Disease of the liver itself is the most common of all diseases. The 
sudden changes of the New England climate, the malarial influences, 
of the "West, and the heat also of the South, as well as the dietetic 
habits of the people of this country, and other causes, all tend to de- 
velop the Liver disease, in some of its varied forms, throughout the 
United States. This is true, both of man and beast ; as every butcher 
knows that he finds the livers of cattle, sheep and swine diseased ten 
times, where he finds any other organ diseased once. Almost every 
person is bilious at some time, and many are constantly bilious. It 
may be mere congestion of the liver, and torpidity of its function, or 
this may result in some structural or organic affection. But the Liver 
can never be diseased without affecting the stomach, bowels, and the 
other organs we have spoken of, ana costiveness, piles, dropsy, 
dyspepsia, diarrhoea and impoverished blood are among the necessary 
results. 

By years of research, and that practical experience which is the 
result of testing his treatment in so many thousands of caseg^Dr 
Hamilton is able so to treat all those diseases which result from Liver 
Complaint, with remedies which will strike at the root of them as by 
magic. There is no such word as fail in his treatment. By them the 
Liver and Stomach are speedily changed to an active, healthy state, 
the appetite regulated and restored, the blood and secretions thoroughly 
purified and enriched, and the whole system renovated and built up 
new. 



Symptoms of Liver Complaint. 

A sallow or yellow-color of the skin, or yellowish- 
brown spots on the face and other parts of the body ; dull- 
ness and drowsiness, with frequent headache ; bitter or 
bad taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and internal 
heat ; palpitation of the heart ; a dry, teasing cough, with 
sore throat ; unsteady appetite ; sour stomach, with a 
raising of the food, and a choking sensation in the throat ; 
sickness and vomiting; distress, heaviness or a bloated or 

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fall feeling about the stomach and sides, often attended 
with pains and tenderness; aggravating pains in the sides, 
back or breast, and about the shoulders ; colic pain and sore- 
ness through the bowels, with heat ; constipation of the 
boicels, alternating with frequent attacks of diarrhoea ; 
piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of the extremities ; 
rush of blood to the head, with symptoms of apoplexy ; 
numbness of the limbs, especially at night; cold chills, 
alternating with hot flashes ; kidney and urinary difficul- 
ties ; low spirits, unsociability and gloomy forebodings. 



The Reason Why! 

WHY IS D3. HAMILTON SUCCESSFUL? 

1st. — Because he has studied these diseases for a life-time — first 
becoming interested by his own sufferings. 

2d. — Because he has investigated every remedy known to science, and 
in addition he has new remedies, unknown to the world, which 
were discovered and developed by himself. 

3d. — Because he has no routine way of treating alt cases alike, but 
treats each patient who sacredly commits his health to him, 
according to the actual, condition of that patient. 

4th. — Because, having made a specialty of Liver, Lung, and Blood 
Diseases, he has an experience which has extended to tens of 
thousands of cases — a greater experience, it is safe to say, than 

ANY OTHER LIVING MAN. 



5th. — Because he selects his remedies for each case with such care, 
uses harmless vegetable agents, and devotes his whole life and 
energies to making his practice successful — to get his patients 

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Synopsis. 



For greater convenience of those wishing to write me about their 
diseases, I insert the following, which embraces nearly all that I 
require to know in most cases : 

Ilave you constipation of the bowels ? 

Have you attacks of diarrhoea? 

Have you pains in the back, sides, or shoulders? 

Ilave you a pain or tenderness about the stomach ? 

Have you a dry, teasing cough ? 

Have you a sallow or yellow skin ? 

Have you brown spots on your face or any part of the body 

Have you a- headache? 

Are you dull, heavy, or sleepy ? 

Have you a bitter or bad taste in the mouth ? 

Have you an irritation or dryness in the throat ? 

Have you cold chills or hot flashes ? 

Have you palpitation of the heart 

Is your appetite unsteady? 

Is your stomach sour ? 

Do you raise or spit up your food? 

Have you any choking spells ? 

Are you troubled with sickness and vomiting ? 

Do you feel bloated about the stomach ? 

Have you a tired or sore feeling on rising in the morning ? 

Do you have colic pains ? 

Have you wind in the stomach or bowels? 

Have you piles or fistula ? 

Have you nervous and all-gone feelings? 

Have you cold feet and hands ? 

Have you a rush of blood to the head ? 

Have you uneasiness on lying on the sides ? 

Have you fainting or epileptic fits ? 

Have you great lowness of spirits? 

Have you gloomy forbodings ? 

Is there any sediment in your urine ; if so, is it red or white? 

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Consumption, 



What is consumption ? Tubercular consumption is a disease of 
the lungs, produced by impure blood. The highest authorities recog- 
nize this and demonstrate it. The old theory that it is a local inflam- 
mation, to be treated with bleeding, blisters and tartar emetic, is the 
most cruel humbug ever put forth under the sanction of medical 
authority. Consumption itself is not so often hereditary as has been 
supposed, but that a condition of low vitality may be transmitted 
from parents to children is unquestionably true. It is this deficiency 
of vitality which is inherited — a weakness which makes nutrition 
imperfect, and leads to the deposit of tubercles But thousands of 
persons, born with feeble vitality, and who grow from infancy to 
youth, would never develop the consumption if the functions of the 
system were kept correct. But when the stomach performs its office 
only partially, and the food is but half digested, nothing is done to 
establish vitality and keep up the supply of good blood, and nourish 
all the tissues of the system healthfully And when the liver but 
imperfectly pours off the wasted, poisonous materials of the blood, 
through the secretion of bile, these poisonous materials are retained 
in the blood, and irritate every tissue of the system. How speedily 
does the torpid or diseased liver break down the general strength, and 
make the person feel languid, and weak, and faint, and drowsy, and 
confused ! IIow soon does it create pain in the right side, both in the 
region of the liver, and a sympathetic pain in the shoulders, and 
spine, and through the lungs. How soon the patient has a dry, hack- 
ing cough— that ' ' liver cough ! ' ' The lungs are irritated by the liver- 
poisoned blood, and the tubercles are produced, minute at first, and 
perhaps existing for months all unknown to their victim. 

The ordinary treatment of consumption does nothing to~remove 
tubercles To cure consumption, there is no rational way except to 
purify the blood. The liver must be excited to action, by the very 
best agents, so as to make it throw off those poisonous materials 
which are causing the tubercles. Other medicines may be given, to 
nourish the system and support vitality, and thus prevent the devel- 
opment of the tubercles ; but it is perfectly vain to cure consumption 
without restoring the action of the liver. Kestore the liver, remove >. 
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purify the blood, and you strike at the root of incipient consumption, 
and cure the patient. 

We know all this from our own personal experience. We know 
what it is to lie on a sick bed for months, with that hacking, distress- 
ing cough. We have been there ! 

We know what cured us, and we know what has cured thousands 
of others. We remember hundreds of cases of catarrh, bronchitis, and 
consumption which have yielded to the same remedies. To the action 
of those remedies we have given an amount of observation never given 
to any other remedies, as we suppose, by any other practitioner. 
This will not seem extravagant to any person, even to the most intel- 
ligent physician, who knows the number of our patients. In fact we 
often treat the members of the physician's own family, entirely un- 
known to the personal friends and acquaintances of that physician. 
The truth is just this: most physicians do not profess & have skill in 
curing consumption. 

We have cured, in hundreds of instances, in numerous cases, too, 
where both lungs were affected. In not a few cases after the patient 
had hectic, night-sweats, and tubercular abscesses; and these grateful 
patients are the persons who have sent so many thousand others to 
us. Consumption is, in general practice, much oftener cured than is 
generally supposed ; many of the profession are aware of this, and 
this fact is now noticed in all the best works on this disease. We call 
the attention of the reader to a case illustrative of this fact, and ask 
your thoughtful consideration of it. It should interest every person 
who has the consumption ! In the Proceedings of the Connecticut Medi- 
cal Society, for 1868, page 145, may be found : " Observations, Ante- 
mortem and Post-mortem, upon the Case of the late President Day, by 
Professor S. G. Hubbard, M. D., New Haven." From this article we 
learn that the late Jeremiah Day, LL. D., for twenty-nine years 
President of Tale College, was a victim whilst a mere youth to pul- 
monary consumption. Mr. Day was born in Washington, Conn., Au- 
gust 2, 1778, and during his infancy and boyhood his vitality was 
feeble. He entered Tale College as a student in 1789, " but was soon 
obliged to leave college on account of a pulmonary difficulty, which 
was, doubtless, the incipient stage of the organic disease of the lungs 
which subsequently developed itself." He remained in feeble health 
for two years, and then returned to college, and graduated in 1795, 



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His lung difficulties were quite severe for the next six years, and he 
repeatedly bled from the lungs in large quantities ; but in 1803 he had 
so far recovered as to accept a professorship, which he held until 1S1T, 
when he was chosen president, which office he held until 183G without 
serious disturbance of health. 

President Day died, from "old age," August 27, 1SG7, aged 94 
years ! ! "Why did not consumption kill him ? Because he changed 
his physician, and was cured by altering his treatment, from being 
bled and blistered and starved, to a treatment of nutritious food, 
blood-nourishing medicines, and tonics. Did he have the consump- 
tion ? Both lungs were involved to a large extent, and a considerable 
portion of the lung structure was ulcerated and spit off, and large 
cavities were formed in both lungs. 

"What is the positive evidence of this? TTe will give this in the 
language of Professor Hubbard, who, in speaking of the examination 
of the lungs after death, says, in the article just referred to, p. 149 : 

" On opening the thorax, only a moderate quantity, perhaps a pint, 
of serum was found in both cavities — the lings were everywhere 

FREE FROM TUBERCULAR DEPOSIT, AND IN ALL RESPECTS HEALTHT. In the 

apex of each lung, however, was found a dense, corrugated, circular 
cicatrix, an inch and a half or more in diameter; also a third circu- 
lar cicatrix, on the left side of the left lung, a few inches below the 
apex, each involving such a depth of tissue as to indicate that the 
vomica?, [cavities] of which they were the remains, had been large 
and of long duration. Both lungs were slightly adherent at the 
apex. 

Prof. Hubbard further remarks, most truthfully : 

" nere then, was all that remained to mark the beginning, progress, 
and cure of a case of tubercular consumption, occupying twelve years 
in its period of activity, and with Its incipient stage dating back 
more than three-quarters of a century. A legible record, surpass- 
ing in interest and importance to the human race, those of the slabs 
of Nineveh, or the Runic inscriptions." 

Cases like the above are constantly occurring in our practice, so 
far as curing consumption is concerned. We could fill many pages 
with them, but President Day was so widely known, and lived so long, 
after both lungs had been extensively diseased, and died with lungs 
' ; in all respects healthy," that his case must be conclusively satis- 
factory. But we do not ask the reader to rest the evidence on what 
has been done by other physicians for their patients. 



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Diseases of the Blood, 



SCROFULA, SALT RHEUM, OLD SORE?, ERYSIPELAS, ACXE, BOILS AND 
CARBUNCLES. 

In some cases there seems to be proof, from our most careful ob- 
servation, that these humors are hereditary — acquired from one or 
both of the parents. But in a far greater number it is not so. They 
are developed as the result of liver-poison. Correct the biliary system, 
and give such sanitive vegetable alteratives as purify the diseased 
blood, and these diseases vanish as if by magic. 

"The Blood is the Life." This is as true as a. mathematical or an y 
other scientific proposition ; and it is a truth which should influence 
every physician. For no physician can excel in this class of diseases 
unless he makes a special, thorough, long-continued study of those 
vegetable remedies which purify the blood. Here, we claim, is one of 
our most signal triumphs — having discovered, bt most thorough re- 
search AXD INVESTIGATION, THOSE PLANTS WHICH PURIFY TEE BLOOD. 

These diseases cause years of unhappiness, disappointment, and 
suffering ; and persons suffering from any bad humor are exceedingly 
liable to have it settle on the lungs, or some other vital organ. It is 
always a safe rule, and it is the only safe one for such persons, to re- 
move the disease at once, before the blood-poison has fastened upon 
the heart, lungs, or kidneys. "When you purify the blood and cure 
salt-rheum, you not only cure the salt-rheum, but you put the system 
in such an improved condition that you are not so liable to any dis- 
ease ! Cleanse the fountains - of life, and good digestion, a fair skin, 
buoyant spirits, and vital strength will all return to you. 

"We have scarcely had more grateful letters than those from many 
of our lady patients, in both city and country, who have written to 
thank us for curing those eruptions of the face which are so common 
— acne. 

Many of the impurities of the blood arise from diseases which it 
would not be right to discuss in a pamphlet like this, designed for cir- 
culation in the families of our country. The impure diseases of large 
cities have received from us no small show of attention ; and we can / 
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treat those symptoms of secondary and tertiary disease, just as well 
for patients at a distance as for those who present themselves at our 
office. 

Even slight affections of this character are often the source of much 
mortification and disappointment, and canker many a life which 
might otherwise be happy. Write us confidentially, so we shall know 
just what to do for you, and all will be well ! ! Very frequently per- 
sons suffer from this class of affections who do not dream of it until 
they write us their symptoms. "A word to the wise is sufficient." 
Remember to procure a remedy in season which shall eradicate every 
taint of impurity. 

"We cannot give certificates in all these classes of cases, because to 
do so would violate professional confidence— a point dearer than life 
to the physician of honor. 



Diseases of the Heart. 

We have referred to the fact that impure blood, filled with irritat- 
ing, poisonous materials, often affects the delicate tissues of the 
heart. These diseases of the heart are many of them only nervous, 
and frequently arise sympathetically from disease of the stomach or 
liver; but though only nervous at first, they are liable to produce ir- 
ritation and inflammation of the valves and lining membranes of the 
heart itself, llow wise to attend to a case of this kind in season. 
How wise to be admonished, by the unnatural throbbing of that organ, 
that all is not right ! How wise to. be warned by that pain which you 
feel through the heart, that you should help it to beat rightly and to 
give you continued life, by your taking such medicines as shall pre- 
serve it from further disease. Purify the blood and remove the irrita- 
tion at once. Patients who have suffered from heart difficulties fur 
months and years, are often surprised to realize how soon all their 
troubles are removed. We give no poisons to corrupt the blood, but 
prescribe those blood-purifying plants which an all-wise Providence 
has distributed in every field and meadow and forest. Our country 
is rich, it would seem, above all other countries, in the number and p 
variety of these medical plants ; and to the study cf such agents we x 



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have devoted a vast botanical and therapeutic investigation. Some 
physicians who devote much attention to the nature of heart diseases 
are entirely unsuccessful in their treatment. They have not the right 
remedies. Other diseases are often produced by heart diseases. 
Some disease of the brain frequently results from heart disease. The 
lungs are often diseased, by the same cause ; and dropsy is often 
caused by the organic heart diseases. Apply in season, before the dis- 
ease has become too seated. 



Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. 

Remember that urine is always formed directly from the blood— 
never directly from what we drink. It is simply and solely a secre- 
tion made from the blood, which goes to the kidneys ; but it is a most 
important secretion. Many persons suffering from diseases of the 
kidneys are entirely unaware of it. Sometimes they are doctored for 
months for other diseases, when the real seat of difficulty is the kid- 
neys. We have often treated such cases. Not unfrequently, the 
patient gets very much emaciated, and his strength mostly gone, 
before he applies to us. But his own natural statement of his feel- 
ings, and of the character of bis urine, has enlightened us at once, 
and he has been saved by remedies which purified his blood, acted 
magically upon his liver, and stayed the wasting disease. 

Patients who suffer a dull or severe pain in the back, above the hips 
and at each side of the spine, should look to it at once and not neg- 
lect it. If there be tenderness on pressure at the place above named, 
with too profuse or too scanty urine, these symptoms should attract 
your attention at once. If there be cloudy flakes, or red, " brick- 
dust " deposit in the urine, no time should be lost. If it curdles into 
flakes when you heat a little of it, or add a little nitric acid to it, you 
I had better be restored from such a condition as soon as possible. 
Resort to nature's remedies at once, before the kidney is destroyed in 
its structure. 

No person, unacquainted with the structure, functions and dis- 
eases of the kidneys, can rightly estimate the importance of their X 
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rapidly developed, or the person is liable to be suddenly attacked 
with dropsy, or the most aggravated and prostrating diseases of the 
nervous system may set in. Tatients should have no hesitation in 
speaking confidentially, -when writing us on these things. By so doing, 
they will enable us to discriminate, with scientific accuracy, the 
nature of their individual case, and aid us to choose just the right 
remedy to cure them. 

Most of the diseases of the bladder originate from those of the 
kidneys. The urine is imperfectly manufactured in the kidneys, and 
proves irritating to the bladder and urinary passages. There is no 
tendency, or but very seldom any, of the diseased bladder to become 
cared without treatment. In nine cases out of ten, restore the action 
of the liver fully, and both the kidneys and bladder will be restored. 
"When we remember that no medical agent ever reaches the kidneys, 
except through the liver, and the general circulation of the blood, you 
will see that our treatment is rational, philosophical, and scientific. 
"VVe have, indeed, discovered agents which act with much direct effect 
upon the kidneys, healing these organs and re-establishing their func- 
tional action ; but we use them in connection with our own discovered 
agents for powerfully and kindly acting on the liver, and cleansing 
the blood from every impurity. 

Many of these diseases are of a private nature, and sometimes 
when the patient does not suspect it. Be frank in all your statements, 
and assist us to understand your case, that we may cure you thor- 
oughly. 

Dropsy, 

We have but few words to say to patients on this subject. That 
this disease primarily originates in liver diseases, or impure blood, or 
heart disease, or kidney disease, is well understood by the profession. 
The nature of this disease is very different, indifferent cases. But 
let the disease arise from whatever cause it may, our treatment has 
been eminently successful. We do not cure all casesof it, for patients 
sometimes neglect to apply to U3 until the gravest organic diseases of 
the liver, or heart, or kidneys complicate the case. But if any thing 
will "strike at'the root" of the case, it is our remedies- We cannot 
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would desire to, for, to understand it, requires a thorough knowledge 
of anatomy, physiology, and pathology, which the general reader is 
never supposed to have. Dropsy is one of the most intricate and 
interesting of all diseases. Our special success in its treatment, is 
owing to the fact that we use remedies which are different from the 
remedies usually tried by any school of medicine. To a large extent, 
our several remedies are original, and in their combination they are 
most powerful agents to cure the dropsy. There is now no section 
of the United States in which we have not cured cases of dropsy. 



Piles. 

How common is this disease ! How few physicians permanently 
cure it ! Costiveness is the most frequent and universal of all 
chronic diseases. It is an affection peculiar to no particular section 
of our country, for it prevails everywhere ; it i3 peculiar to no age, for 
it affects patients of every age; it is peculiar to neither the robust nor 
the invalid, for many who otherwise enjoy (for the time being, at 
least) the very best of health, and three-fourths of those invalids who 
suffer from chronic disease, are habitually troubled with constipation ; 
torpid liver and imperfect secretion of bile are the great causes of this 
affection, and in no section of the world is it so universal as in the 
United States. We remove it, by removing its cause. We give no 
drastic and weakening purgatives, but only mild ones, and such as 
will restore a natural action of the bowels.. Xor do we rely on these 
for a permanent cure, but we cure permanently by restoring fully the 
deficient action of that " great housekeeper " of our health, the liver, 
No physician, or other man of sense, will question that this is the 
true and natural way. Hence our own unparalleled success ! Hence 
the title which the American people have everywhere given to us— 
" The Liver, Lcxg, and Blood Doctor." Piles are, in nine cases out 
of ten, produced by costiveness ; but occasionally they are produced 
by disease of the liver, without costiveness. The congestion of the 
blood-vessels of the lower bowel, which constitutes the essence of this 
disease, is owing to obstruction in the return of the venous blood to 
the liver, and this obstruction is almost universally caused by func- r 
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"Why, then, do they not cure 
it ? Because they generally apply local treatment only — they doctor 
the effect, bat let alone the cause. Or, If they act upon the liver, 
they give calomel or blue mass, which never permanently re-estab- 
lishes the functions of the liver, but makes the patient still more 
dependent upon using, again and again, these irritating, poisonous, 
and life-destroying medicines. Medical men should know better than 
this, for they ought to learn better from their want of success. But 
they seem to be utterly deficient of that enterprise and originality, 
which distinguishes so many professional men and intelligent mechan- 
ics in other departments of labor. With most of them it is calomel 
or blue pill, live or die ! ! The treatment by simply aperient mixtures 
and pills is a little better. But this does not remove the cause. 
Agents must be given, if we would thoroughly cure the pileB, which 
arouse the vital action of the liver, and so invigorate its action that 
i t will be permanent. For the time being, it i3 also useful to use local 
treatment to the piles themselves, because it gives relief, and aids the 
speedy cure; but the only agents which permanently cure the piles 
are those which safely, surely and permanently restore the liver 
to its natural functional action. 



Nervous and Sick Headache, and Neu- 

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These affections are produced, in almost every instance, by de- 
rangement of the digestive organs and liver disease. It is rare, 
indeed, that a person who has good digestion, and is not costive, and 
who has a proper action of the liver, suffers from any form of head- 
ache or neuralgia. The great deficiency in the usual medical treat- 
ment is, that the medicines which are given to correct the bowels, do 
not have any permanent action on the liver. The cathartic medicines 
will give relief for a time, but they do not remove the cause. There 
is another mistake in the usual treatment. It is not true that the head- 
ache is altogether caused by the present state of the liver and bowels. 
The truth is, that by reason of the imperfect action of the liver, the 
blood has not been properly purified, and it is this impure blood 
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catc nerve tissue of the brain, which is also a very prominent and 
constant cause of the headache. The same is true of neuralgia. It 
almost always exists in connection with impure blood, or else with 
blood which is deficient in red globules. Our treatment strikes the 
root. It re-establishes the action of the liver, and produces such a 
state, that it keeps up a normal or healthy action ; and our treatment 
also purifies and enriches the blood. { 

There are also numerous other conditions of the nervous system, 
besides neuralgia and headache, to which the same remarks are 
applicable, and which are cured speedily and permanently by our 
remedies. 



Rheumatism. 

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Under this general head we will say a few words to patients af- 
flicted with this disease, and with other diseases which frequently 
accompany it. By referring to our testimonials of cures of this dis- 
ease, the reader will observe how quickly and surely our remedies 
have acted. Reader, is your case any worse than some of those given 
in these certificates? If not, there certainly is hope for you. Re- 
member, that all these cases are but a few of those which might be 
given. Remember, that many of those patients were far worse than 
you probably are ; and remember that not a few of the cases here 
stated as cured, had been under medical care and treatment for months 
or years before they applied to us. ' 

Rheumatism is most emphatically adisease'originating in the 
blood, and every eminent pathologist has so decided. In this disease 
we have acidity of the blood, and imperfect action of the liver, kid- 
neys and skin. The secretions are retained in the system in part, 
and circulating in the blood, they create inflammation in the fibrous 
tissues of the joints, the heart and other organs. In fact, persons 
not unfrequently have a rheumatism of the stomach, or diaphragm, or 
an affection of the membranes covering the brain, without their being 
aware of it. Every intelligent physician knows that this disease oc- 
casionally seizes these and other organs and tissues. 

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2d. Because we re-establish the functions of the liver, kidneys and 
skin. 

3d. Because we have agents which act specifically upon a rheu- 
matic diathesis, or condition of the blood. 

4th. Because we have tested and proved the efficacy of our treat- 
ment of Rheumatism, and know the effects of the agents which we 
use in this disease, and which are peculiarly and emphatically our 
own. . - 

5th. Because it is entirely original and of our own discovery — as 
most of our remedies are— which we use in the treatment of other dis- 



Human Decay. 
General Constitutional Debility. 

Every man, whether he lives in the country or city, knows that 
the number of debilitated persons is vastly greater than formerly. In 
fact there are, in almost every village in our land, persons whose 
only apparent disease is debility, weakness. They are generally pale, 
though not always ; they have cold hands and feet ; they are subject 
to chilly feelings and headache, and a languid and tiresome feeling; 
and not unfrequently they are dyspeptic and gloomy, and are con- 
stantly wondering why they do not get stronger. There are hundreds 
of such persons now, where there was one thirty years ago. 

In other cases the cause of this debility is most manifest ; there Is 
an impoverished condition of the blood — a deficiency of certain chemi- 
cal elements without which the blood cannot have its vitality. The 
person is weak and debilitated, because the blood is so impoverished 
as not to afford strength. It is anaemic, and the person can never 
have strength until the requisite blood medicines are given. 

In many other cases other elements are wanting in the blood, more 
especially such as nourish the nervous system. People are often in 
this condition who have incessant business cares, and thus exhaust 
these chemical elements of the blood. Those whose habits are seden- 
tary, and whose exercise is almost exclusively mental, are in this con- 
dition—such as students, teachers, editors, clergymen and others 
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anxiety. In other persons, not specially nervous nor having very 
constant mental care or exercise, this condition of the blood exists 
from another and entirely different cause. There is some exhausting 
disease of the kidneys, or bladder, or some other organ. Many per- 
sons suffer from great debility, prostration and mental anxiety who do 
not even dream the disease from which they are suffering. Many suf- 
fer from a debility of some delicate nature, concerning which they do 
not feel free to speak to their physician. Many middle-aged, or even 
young gentlemen and ladies apply to us to cure this loss of strength. 
It makes their lives miserable, and those of their companions and 
friends also. Cases of this kind have been supposed to exist mostly 
in the city, but we have very numerous cases of this kind applying to 
us even* day from the country — in fact, from every section of the 
United States. "We have brought happiness to many a man's home, 
by reviving his vitality, and we are daily in receipt of grateful letters 
of this kind from all classes of suffering humanity. 

No intelligent observer has failed to discover the lurking foe which 
lies hidden at the bottom of much of this human woe and deteriora- 
tion of our race. Youthful indiscretions are the bane of civilized so- 
ciety in all countries and in all grades of life. Fathers, mothers and 
guardians, who have the care and training of the rising generation, 
should watch with vigilance this secret enemy, and, at his very first 
approach, despoil him of his power. 

To those of either sex who have arrived at the years of discretion, 
a warning voice may be sufficient, coming as it does from one who has 
stood upon the battle-Seld of this inglorious destruction for thirty 
years, and beheld it3 desolations and premature deaths. It comes from 
one who has painfully witnessed the wreck of frail and beautiful child- 
hood, of promising youth, and hopeful maturity upon this fatal rock. 
Exalted purposes and cherished ambition, and all the excellencies that 
make up the sum- total of useful and brilliant lives, in this and the 
future existence, have, in many neglected cases, been buried in the 
depths of oblivion, by the foolish and degrading habits to which we 
refer. 

I will simply add, that, after an experience of thirty years, in 
which I have made the treatment of these diseases, very largely, a 
specialty, I am confident that in nine cases out of ten I can restore 
such to health. 

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My remedies are not only my own by discovery, but they hare 
been tested with happy success in thousands of case3 throughout the 
land. 

Do not fear to write freely and fully all the symptoms, with age, 
sex, occupation, and all the essential and peculiar facts in the case, 
and a confidential reply may be expected by next mail. 



Spinal Irritation. 



Because of impurity of the blood, the humors are liable to settle 
upon any delicate organ or tissue. The lungs, the stomach and the 
uterus are the organs mo3t often and seriously affected by bad hu - 
mors. But the spinal nerve becomes affected much oftener than 
is generally supposed. Press directly with the thumb and fingers 
upon the spinaf column, and some portion of it will be found to be 
tender, in a great majority of chronic cases; or press upon the back 
along the sides of the spine, one or two inches from it, and the 
branches of the spinal nerve will, some of them, be found very sen- 
sitive. This disease is often overlooked, and many persons are doc- 
tored for months for rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, heart dis- 
ease, sciatic i, womb disease, costlveness, nervousness and pros- 
tration, who are in reality not troubled with these diseases at all, 
but who suffer from spinal irritation. Hundreds suffer uselessly, 
either because this disease is not appreciated, or because those who 
doctor it have not the knowledge of its required remedies. Hundreds 
of scrofulous persons in every section of our land have this scrofu- 
lous humor settled upon the spine, and these patient3 become poor, 
nervous, wretched and wrecked invalids, confined to their beds for 
years. They are doctored by various doctors, for numerous diseases 
which they never had ; or which, if they had them in a slight degree, 
these diseases were only the manifestations and developments of 

SPINAL IRRITATION. 

"We succeed eminently in these cases, because we " strike at the 
root ;" we purify the blood. Another reason why wc succeed is be- 
cause our external remedies, which we apply by rubbing on the 
spine, are so effectual and valuable — different entirely from any thing 
ever published in any work on this much-discusseii subject of medi- 

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cal literature, and different entirely from those that can be learned 
in any medical college. Persons suffering from this disease can judge 
of the efficacy of our remedies in these cases very soon. Only a few 
days will convince the most skeptical. 



Diseases of Females. 

In a prof essional pamphlet like this, designed for general reading, 
we cannot speak fully and freely on the several diseases to which 
females are subject. A few words only we will say. Every physi- 
cian, as well as every experienced nurse, must have noticed how 
common are these diseases. Indeed, the number of really healthy 
adult females is comparatively few. Hundreds and thousands suffer 
more from general debility, want of strength, and nervous exhaus- 
tion than from any other disease. The liver and stomach, and other 
organs which prepare the food for blood, do not perform their duty 
well, and the system becomes impoverished, weak, and nervous. Liver 
complaint is the principal cause of this debility in a very large pro- 
portion of cases. Debility, poor blood, eruptions and discolor ations 
of the skin, irregular appetite, and generally costiveness and head- 
ache, belong to this class of cases. We have cured thousands of them, 
and hence realize their frequency and become perfectly acquainted 
with their treatment. 

"We also treat very numerous cases of deficient or profuse, or too 
frequent or painful menstruation, and send efficient remedies daily, 
through every mail, to any post-office in the United States. Very 
numerous, also, are the cases of leucorrhea or whites, pruritus or 
itching, inflammation, ulcers, tumors, and prolapsus or falling and 
other displacements, barrenness, and other diseases, both functional 
and organic. These diseases, together with every variety of private 
disease, have occupied much of our time and attention. "Without 
boastful parade, we wish to say that we trust we merit the large pat- 
ronage bestowed upon us by the ladies of America in these diseases, 
by the efficiency of our cures and the confidential manner in which 
~ we have kept every professional trust. If we were to boast of any 
X thing, it would be that no lady, married or single, has ever been 

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deceived and betrayed to those false friends who are forever surmis- 
ing and quizzing the country dootor. 

Of course we can give no testimonials of our cures of these cases. 
It would be a breach of good faith to do so, even when patients w«re 
willing ; for we claim that every case of this kind belongs only to the 
patient and her chosen physician. We will only add that our expe- 
rience has been so large that there is no case of this kind, whether 
recent or of long standing, and whether common or rare in its occur- 
rence, which we have not seen and treated. 



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Catarrh and Throat Disease. 

This disease commences sometimes in the throat, sometimes in the 
passages of the nose, sometimes in the passages between the throat 
and internal ear (eustachian tubes), sometimes in the upper air-tubes 
to the lungs, and sometimes in the stomach. Whenever this disease 
exists there is an unhealthy condition of the lining membrane — 
called the mucous membrane. Sometimes this membrane is inflamed 
and red; sometimes it is congested and relaxed and flabby; some- 
times it is covered with little grayish-white spots, called canker, or 
apthae ; sometimes little ulcers form and heal, and then are repro- 
duced and heal again. In many cases the catarrh will first effect one 
portion of the mucous membrane, and then another portion, and then 
return to the original seat of the disease; and thus change from 
place to place, changing its seat from time to time. 

The nature of the disease is a weakening or degeneration of the 
membrane, wherever it occurs. The membrane has not a healthy 
condition, but one of impaired vitality, want of tone, or disease. So 
far as the development of the disease is concerned, this weakness, or 
irritation, or relaxation, may commence in the throat, or in the 
stomach, or in the nose; and it may, in so far, be considered a local 
disease. But it is not a local disease as to its cause. The cause is 
impure and irritating blood, and this irritation and weakness settles 
upon the weak spot. The membrane is weakened by its constant 
exposure to the varied temperatures of our climate, and its varied 



degrees of moisture. The membrane thus weakened becomes the 
seat of disease, because it is weak ; for it is a general law of disease 
that it attacks the weakest organs or weakest point of the system. 
Tou may cure this local development of the disease a hundred times 
and it may do no permanent good, unless you cure also the impure 
condition of the blood, and strengthen the system. Any man who has 
had the catarrh for years knows this to be true from his own expe- 
rience. 

Our success in catarrh has been universally conceded. No person, 
so far as we know, has every attempted to deny it. 

"Why have we been successful? 

1st. Because we purify the blood, and thus remove the cause 
which is so constantly reproducing the disease. 

2d. Because our method of using remedies reach every portion of 
the diseased membrane. This is a very important point. The ordi- 
nary treatment does not reach the extensive cavities of the nose, 
lined by the schneiderian membrane ; neither does it reach the air- 
tubes of the upper part of the lungs ; nor does it ever reach the tubes 
between the throat and ears. Our directions show the patient how to 
apply it to every portion of these membranes. 

3d. Because our experience in the use of agents has taught us the 
very best agents to permanently cure this disease. Hundreds of for- 
mulas for the treatment of the passages affected by catarrh have been 
published ; but we unhesitatingly declare that nine out of every ten, 
professional or empirical, have done no permanent good, and many 
of them are highly irritating and injurious. 

Our cures of catarrh have been so numerous that we scarcelj- 
know where to commence choosing our testimonials. We will pre- 
sent a few of those original " voices of the people ;" and invite the 
honest scrutiny of every man of common sense, whether educated or 
not, to the views we have just presented. 

Before introducing our evidence, in proof of our success, we must 
call attention to just one point. It is this : We all know that catarrh 
is more prevalent than almost any other disease, especially in all 
the middle and northern portions of the United States, and that it 
forms the introduction to consumption in more'than two-thirds of all 
the cases of consumption. It is nature's warning that the blood is 

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impure, and that this impurity is developing itself into a disease of the 
membrane, in the form of catarrh. Catarrh is nature's outlet for disease ; 
for if it did not exist, the same impurities 'would be developed primari- 
ly upon the delicate tissues of the lungs and kidneys,.and would be 
vastly more fatal. If you have the catarrh, remember it is a warning 
signal to apprise you of the impurities of the blood. Purify the blood 
and cure the catarrh before it is too late — before the irritation and 
inflammation and debility of the membrane of the throat extends to 
the lungs and invites the deposit of tubercles and ulceration of those 
organs. '' 



Epileptic Fits. 



This most horrible disease has, of late, become so very prevalent 
and obstinate in its character, that we feel called upon to give the 
people a more inteliigible idea of it than is generally given by physi- 
cians for the masses. 

Epilepsy is a peculiar affection of the brain and nervous system, 
which at certain periods results in an irregular convulsive action of 
the nerves, called spasms, or fits. 

There are many causes that produce this dreaded affection ; the 
most common of which are injuries of the brain or spine, or erup- 
tions that have been driven in by improper treatment — mental or 
physical exhaustion, worms, impurities of the blood, irritation of the 
mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels. In females, any 
derangements of the peculiar function of their sexual organs is a 
prolific cause of their fits ; more especially during the ages from 
fifteen to fifty, or during those periods of female life when the brain 
and nervous system are so prone to take on morbid irritation, by the 
operation of specific changes in the animal economy. 

Functional or organic diseases of the Liver and Stomach are also 
most frequent causes of epilepsy. Improper and irregular habits of 
living, such as over-eating, especially food of an indigestible charac- 
ter. Intemperance in the use of spirits, or tobacco. These, with 
many other causes, conspire, directly and indirectly, to produce and 
prolong Epilepsy. 

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There is still another most fatal cause which produces, directly and 
indirectiy, at least three-quarters of all the cases of this disease that 
we have to treat; and that cause will be found by reading my article 
in this little book, entitled " Human Decay." Parents should read it ! 
We have, had a very large experience in the treatment of this trouble. 
During the past thirty years, thousands of such cases have been 
brought to us, and our new and specific remedies have, in a large 
majority of cases been successful ; cures have been effected in hun- 
dreds of cases where all hope had fled and dark despair had undis- 
puted sway. In fact there are only a few cases of Epileptic Fits met 
with that can be called hopelessly incurable. 

While under treatment for this malady the patient should observe 
all of the laws of life and health, and make every effort to throw off 
and fully master the enemy by mental and physical harmony and 
strength. It must be remembered that the deplorable result of Epi- 
lepsy is to destroy the intellect and render-its subjects imbecile, and 
forever Idiotic — a condition of life, above all others, to be feared and 
dreaded by every sensitive mind. 

Those who are fee victims of the evil alluded to above, are hereby 
invited to write me a full and plain statement of their cases, and I 
will, with the utmost candor and fairness, give my opinion of the case, 
with the cost of the treatment for the same, by return mail. Make an 
effort to retain Reason, Memory and Self-hood, and all that is dear 
to a human soul. 



Other Diseases, 

The field of labor to which we have devoted many years has been 
that of Chronic Diseases generally. Almost, all of these arise from 
diseases of the liver and blood ; and almost all cases of diseases of the 
liver and blood are connected with other local or constitutional dis- 
eases. Cosdveness, Piles, Prolapsus of the Rectum, Scrofula, Tumors, 
Eruptions and other Skin diseases, Dropsy, Kidney Disease, Chronic 
Diarrhoea, Catarrh, Bronchitis, Enlarged Tonsils, Diabete3, Rheuma- j 
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Persons suffering from these affections, like those before men- 
tioned in this pamphlet, are very apt to apply to their ordinary medi- 
cal counsel. Now, the time and study of the country physician are 
mostly busily occupied with fevers and rheumatism, or some other kind 
of acute diseases. They take his thoughts and make for him a great 
daily responsibility. If he be a man of any considerable success and 
acumen and an agreeable and manly address, he hag usually enough 
of these cases to task all his energy and take all his time. He has 
neither time, taste, books nor patience to successfully investigate any 
original method of treating chronic cases. Nor does he have variety 
or numbers enough of them, to afford him a good test of the relative 
success of different methods of treatment. 

Now, we have no time to visit fever cases, or acute cases generally, 
but use all our time to investigate and treat chronic cases. "We 
devote our whole attention to them, from clay to day, and year to year. 
The relative value of hundreds of plants has been thoroughly tested 
in so many cases, that for every case we can at once decide upon the 
remedy which will be successful. 

In consequence of this course, and having largely advertised our 
business, the number of rare and afflicted cases which has been pre- 
sented to us has been incredible indeed. As a center of medical cor- 
respondence, our enterprise is beyond all question the most extensive 
in the world. We presume that there may be many large hospitals, 
both in this country and in Europe, where more patients apply for 
surgical operations and surgical advice; but there is no institution in 
the known world where so many persons apply for medical advice as 
at our office. 



What is the Evidence I sliall be Cured ? 

You have now read*my THEORY, and the REASON "WHY I am 
successful. Thousands of patients who have risen from their beds of 
sickness, all over the land, are sending me letters stating their recov- 
ery and gratitude. In the limits of this pamphlet I cannot present 
the reader with one in a hundred. If, however, the reader should 
feel the least doubt at all, let him write to any of the parties named in 
the long list of testimonials and references. 

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TESTDMIALS OF CURES. 

Supported by Honorable Men! JJeodJJ. [Read l'l J 

" R. Leosldas Hamilton, M.D. : 

"Dear Sir : Duty prompts me to a most grateful acknowledgment 
of the astonishing success of your treatment in my case. For nearly 
three years I had suffered from Catarrh, Nervous Rheumatism, Liver 
Complaint and Extreme Nervousness, insomuch that life had become 
an intolerable burden, and death was looked for as my only release ; 
physically and mentally broken down, I was utterly unable to do the 
duties of a minister, and was preparing to retire from the ranks when 
providentially my eye fell on your advertisement in the X. Y. Metli- 
I had already traveled far and expended so much in the vain 
effort to secure a cure, that it was with great reluctance and little 
hope that I addressed you. Tour reply inspired me with hope — your 
remedies were received and taken, and the result was as marvelous to 
those who knew my condition as it was gratifying to myself. In three 
weeks I was again in the pulpit preaching with unusual vigor, and if 
my services are of any value to the church, it is indebted to you, un- 
der God, for their continuance. You may refer to me at any time, 
and I shall be ever pleased to bear testimony to your extraordinary 
skill. ''Yours truly, r Rev. JOSEPH JONES, - J 

" Saint Joseph, Mich. 



Cured after all Hopes had Fled. 

"Madisoxville, Penn. 
'• Prof. R. L. Hamilton— Bear Sir: Shortly after I commenced to 
use your remedies I felt the disease beginning to give way, and i have 
been improving ever since. My neighbors lvave often spoken of the 
improvement in my looks, and I know that I have not felt as well for 
four years as I do now. I believe you understand your business, and 
can do all you claim to do. Your remedies have proved, in my case, 
wonderful, and they wrought for me the blessed and joyous feeling of 
health, vigor, life, and freedom, the power to work and enjoy myself. 
Doctor, I thank you for your past kindness and faithful attention to 

) me while under your care. 

i " M. J. WEBSTER. 



Dyspepsia and Constipation Cured. 

Mr. S. S. Parker, of Alabama, Genesee County, N. Y., writes: 
" My wife has wholly recovered since using your medicine. Pre- 
vious to applying to you she was unable to take the least food or 
drink, except corn starch and bread coffee. Her bowels would not 
move for eighteen days at a time, and then forced by the most un- 
pleasant efforts. Since the third day after taking your medicine she 
has taken her ordinary meals of rational food with very little incon- 
venience, and her bowels move regular and easy. Her feet and 
limbs, which previously required a jug of hot water, day and night, 
for a long time, to keep them warm, are now warm enough of them- 
selves. Her nervous debility, which was past endurance, is much 
better, and she once more enjoys her nights in sweet sleep. She sits 
up all day, whereas she wa9 only moved from one bed to another for 
making and change. May God bless and cause you to live long and 
bless with your remedies the thousands of poor invalids that are suf- 
fering for want of medical treatment." ' 



Is Thankful! 

Mrs. Abel Goodnough, of Shelburn Falls, Mass., writes: 
" The medicines you sent me were received and have been taken 
as directed. I feel that it is but an act of justice to state, and it gives 
me great pleasure to do so, that I have been benefited by your valua- 
ble remedies far beyond all expectations, or the most sanguine hopes 
of my friends. I shall ever feel grateful to God that I was led to use 
the means with which he was pleased to bless me, and to you for your 
faithfulness in furnishing me with medicines that restored me to al- 
most perfect health, after having suffered for years with diseases 
which were believed to be incurable. Indeed, I am well, and think I 
need no more medicine." 



Most Wonderful ! 

Mrs. Josephine S. Hatch, Provincetown, Mass., writes : 
"Prof. R. L. Hamilton : 

" Dear Sir : Believing a statement of my sickness and wonderful 
cure would be a benefit to many similarly diseased, I send you this 
certificate. I cannot remember the time when I was really well. Two 
years ago I was taken with a pain in my right side, which at times 
was very bad ; but I was unwilling to give up and call myself sick, 

Sand the medicine I got from our family physician doing no good, I 
suffered in silence. In December, 1S63, my side was so swollen and 



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so painful that I could not -wear my clothesT* "While in this condition, 
Mrs. Emeline Stover, of Industry, Franklin County, Me., came here 
on a visit, and told me how your valuable medicine had cured her of 
liver complaint, and she knew I had it ; but I could not make up my 
mind to send to you then, and after a time forgot it. My side got no 
better, and on the 18th of May, 1864, in lifting beyond my strength, I 
broke the ligament in my back, and was obliged to give out entirely 
and go to bed. I could not turn myself in bed, and to lift me from one 
bed to the other, as they did once a week to make my bed, seemed as 
though it would take my life. I was obliged to lie on my back all the 
time, my head even with my body. I took my food in this position. 
What I suffqjed no one can ever know. My head ached all the time 
dreadfully, my side grew worse, was very painful, my back very bad ; 
and to make matters worse, I had so much inflammation in stomach, 
side and bowels, that I could not take much that was strengthening. I 
cannot begin to tell one-half that I had to contend with, and if I could, 
I doubt if it would be believed. Shortly after I was taken sick I com- 
menced to have a sort of fits, and the weaker I got the oftener I had 
them, and these alone, I knew, would cause my death if not soon 
cured. The first symptom of them would be rapid beating of the 
heart ; next it would seem as though my heart did not beat at all, and 
my pulse stops, and I struggle for breath. 

" These spells would sometimes last an hour, and they have often 
thought I was dying. My feet and hands would be cold, and have 
every appearance of death. I had a very good physician, but he did 
me no good, and I gave myself up to die. One day some friends 
came to see me, and brought me some things. After they were gone, 
I took up the paper and noticed your advertisement — read it, for want 
of something to do — remembered what Mrs. Stover had told me, and 
resolved to send. You wrote back that you could cure me permanent- 
ly, if I commenced then ; said my disease was of the liver and di- 
gestive organs. I had faith, and wanted your medicine. I had to 
talk a great deal to do away with the prejudices of many of my 
friends. I commenced taking your medicine on the 20th of No- 
vember, and the result was glorious — far beyond my expectations. I 
began to gain immediately, my headache left me, I slept well, was 
cheerful and suffered but little. Still, I had no use of my limbs, and 
no one thought I ever would again. The second lot of medicine I had, 
you said, ' I will have you on your feet In a month, or two at the most.' 
I really laughed at the idea, for I then could not turn myself, move 
my feet, or hold my head up ; but, strange as it may seem, in five 
weeks from that date I was so much better that they put me on my 
feet, and I, for the second time, learned to walk. I have gained 
fast ever since. I sit up all day, walk out, and am about all day. My 
recovery is looked upon as little short of a miracle by hundreds who 
know the circumstances ; and I often hear the remark, ' He must be 
more than a man who has done this.' I have had many to see me in 
regard to my sad condition. I thank you many times for what you 
have done for me, and I shall ever remember with gratitude the man 
who, under God, has cured me of one the most distressing diseases 
the liver complaint." 

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"Takes Pleasure in Making Known the Good 
Results." 

Mr. J. H. Moshell, of Columbus, Georgia, writes : 
" I received your medicine and took it as directed. The effect was 
entirely satisfactory. Have handed out the circulars you sent me, 
and take great pleasure in making known the good result." 



A Voice from Western New York. 

Mr. John Fletcher, Sr., of Oswego, N. Y., writes: 
V I am happy to inform you that the disagreeable symptoms I had 
when I wrote to you first have all left me, and I do not require any 
more medicine. I followed your advice strictly and carefully, and 
the result has been successful. So long as I live, so long as my mem- 
ory retains its seat, so long will I retain and cherish feelings of the 
deepest gratitude to you ; and wherever I may be in this world, I will 
recommend every person I know in want of medical treatment to 
Professor Hamilton. 1 ' 



Almost Insane, but Cured ! 

Mrs. Cyrus Gordon, of Rushford, Alleghany Co. , N. Y., writes: 
" I hardly remember when I have felt as well as now. The ner- 
vous, desponding feelings are gone, and I feel more like enjoying life. 
Had it not been for your medicines, I believe I would still have been 
dragging myself around, with no energy, and entertaining gloomy, 
desponding thoughts. I shall do all I can to induce my female 
friends, of whom I have many, who are diseased as I was, to apply to 
you." 



"Rests Well Sights." 

Mr. Willis De Long, of South Edmeston, Otsego Co., New York, 
writes : 

" I received your medicines in due time, and have used them with 
great benefit. Previous to taking the remedies, I could not lie on the 
left side, nor rest scarcely any nights. My sleep is now sound and 
refreshing, and I can lie on either side. All the bad feeling3 about 

A\ my stomach and sides are gone, and I begin to feel like my former 

\ self again." 

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" Money Sot Thrown Away." 

Mr. Job Coslett, of Danville, Montour County, Penn., writes : 
" I received the medicine you sent, and before I finished taking it 
I was able to work, and have been ever since. When I expressed my 
intention to try your remedies, many of my neighbors said I ' would 
throw away my money.' I feel that I have not thrown it away, for I 
received greatbenefit— indeed, I may say, ^.perfect cure." 



Saved from the Grare. 

Mr. J. H.Jewell, of Sylvania, Pa,, writes : 

" I am trying to have those that are diseased send to you at 
once, and especially those that have the liver complaint, as I know 
that you are as sure to cure that every time, as the person is to take 
your remedies. I know that if it had not been for your remedies I 
should have been in my grave long before now, for I was clean gone, 
as you know; and if my testimony is worth any thing to you, you are 
at liberty to make such use of it as you may see fit, for I feel as if you 
had saved me from my grave." 



Voice from the South. 

Mrs. Lethea A. Smith, of Evergreen, Avoyelles Parish, La., writes : 
"I feel and know now that I am gaining rapidly all the time, 
and I know not how to express my gratitude to you for relieving me 
of pain and misery. I have no more gloomy forebodings ; menses are 
regular, digestion good ; in short, I feel like my former self again. 
Any thing I can do for you, by influencing others to apply, shall be 
done with earnestness and great pleasure. Send me some circulars, 
for I feel that one should be in the hands of every diseased person 
throughout our impoverished Southern country. " 



A Case of Piles Cured. 

Carrie E. Phillips, of Middletown Center, .Susquehanna County, 
Penn., after making application for a friend of hers, adds : 

" As for myself, my story is soon told . I am well again, thanks to 
the Lord and your medicines. I believe you have saved me from an 
untimely grave. You have cured me from the liver complaint and the 
piles. My sufferings from the latter disease (incident, I believe, to 
the former) were intolerable. I cannot express my thanks to you for 
what you have done for me, and the prompt attention and solicitude 
|h you manifested while doing it. God will be your rewarder. If I, or 
\ any other of my friends, are sick again, you will hear from us." 

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A Cure of Salt Rheum and Scrofula. 

Miss Charlotte Rhoades, of Cortlandt Center, Kent Co., Mich., writes 
under recent date : 

" This is the first winter in eleven years that my hands have not 
troubled me with Scrofula and Salt Rheum. It is your remedies that 
have accomplished this. When I see any one out of health, I tell 
them to at once write to you if they want to be helped." 



Case of Asthma. 



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"Afton,N.Y. 
"To Prof. R. L. Hamilton — Dear Dr. : It was between six an 
seven years that 1 was afflicted with that dire malady, the Asthma, and 
after employing the best medical skill in the country, and taking all 
the patent medicines recommended, without avail or any permanent re- 
lief, I began to think there was no cure for it ; but noticing an adver- 
tisement of yours in one of the New York papers, it was with the greatest 
reluctance I wrote you, as I then expected it would not benefit me, 
and would be worse than useless. In this I was greatly disappointed, 
as I had not taken the medicine more than two weeks before I was 
able to do light work on the farm. Before this, I could not attend to 
any business, being completely prostrated, and after taking two pack- 
ages, considered myself perfectly cured, and my health fully estab- 
lished, the bronchial difficulties and all bad symptoms being entirely 
removed. All this i3 attributable to your unrivaled medicine, under 
the Divine sanction, which, I trust, with me, will ever be remembered 
with gratitude. I cannot close this communication without an expres- 
sion of my heartfelt gratitude and thanks for the timely aid you ren- 
dered my daughter in Consumption. The efficiency of the medicine 
in her case has been truly miraculous. That hectic cough and flush 
on her cheek, with the other consumptive symptoms, have entirely 
left her, and now. after a period of five months, she is enjoying good 
health and is quite robust, so much that she has engaged to teach 
school this Summer. You are at liberty to show this letter to any 
similarly afflicted, or publish it, as you think proper. Any letter o£ 
Inquiry I will cheerfully answer. I am, dear Doctor, with many 
thanks, your humble servant, JOSEPH LITTLE." 



Read, Ye Afflicted ! 

Mrs. Samuel A. Firman, of Carversville, Penn., writes : 
" My daughter now enjoys better health than she has had before 
in many years. She seems to be perfectly well. Your medicine has ( 
cured her." f 

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Good Report from Indiana ! 

" Plymouth, Marshall Co., Ind. 
"Prof. R. L. Hamilton: 

" Dear Doctor : Through the helping hand of an all-wise God, I 
consider you my life and health preserver. Were it not for the medi- 
cal treatment received from you, I feel assured that I would have 
been in my grave. I think it has been about two years since I have 
taken any medicine, and my health has been better since I used your 
remedies than it has ever been before in over ten years. The bleed- 
ing at the lungs, and the long train of other complaints, of which you 
cured me, were pretty good tests of your skill and treatment, which 
proved to be a success. My friends were greatly surprised at my 
speedy recovery, and the doctors had to give it up, and acknowledge 
that there was no 'humbug ' in the case. Every one about here who 
has tried your remedies has been greatly benefited by them, and I 
can most cheerfully recommend them to all persons who are afflicted 
with disease. A friend of mine has informed me that your medicine 
was of more benefit to him than all he had ever taken. Hoping that 
you may live long to heal the afflicted and suffering, and knowing 
that you will ever have my well wishes and esteem, I am, with much 
respect, JAME3 C. TUTTLE." 



A Sad Case, Surely ! 



The following needs no comment : 

"North Egremoxt, Berkshire Co., Mass. 
"Dr. Hamilton: 

" Dear Sir t I was troubled for some years with liver complaint 
and bilious colic, which at times was so severe that I longed for death 
to eod my misery. Last September I was taken down so low that my 
friends thought there was no help for me, and said I must die. My 
suffering was more than I can tell. I employed one physician after 
another, without experiencing any permanent relief. At last, reading 
of your wonderful cures in the Independent, I concluded to write to 
you, stating my case as correctly as possible, and received your an- 
swer, that you could aire me. I therefore ordered the medicine (my 
friends still doubting), which was taken as directed, and after taking 
it two or three days, I began to gain, and now feel quite well, having 
worked at my trade (carpenter and joiner) for some weeks past. I 
confidently recommend all afflicted as I was to place themselves under 
your treatment, for I am convinced you understand your business 
and can do what you claim. 

"Yours truly, CHAS. POTTER." 



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Interesting- Case ! 

South "Woodstock, Conn. 

Mrs. L. H. Palmer gives a history of her case, which, as she says, 
"was so remarkable that strangers came many miles to Bee me, the 
same as they would a great curiosity. I seem," she writes, "to have 
all the complaints a person can have and live — indeed, I seem to live 
but to suffer. I have headache, sore throat, with a general disorgani- 
zation of the system; am touched with a dry, tight cough, short 
breath, very costive ; have night sweats, and at times afflicted with 
the piles, which are intolerably painful. Now I suffer with the cold, 
and again seem burning with the heat. I have not had a menstrual 
discharge for fifteen weeks; I have sharp, running pains in my hips 
and kidneys, and my liver is apparently torpid and inactive." 

The medicines needed by Mrs. P. were at once forwarded, and the 
benefits derived from them are apparent from the following extract 
from one of her substantial letters : 

" Although I had begun to be encouraged by the slight improve- 
ment, yet I felt that a crisis was coming — one which I dared not to 
contemplate. You can imagine my agreeable surprise when I passed 
the critical period with less pain than I ever felt in my life. From 
that time I began to improve rapidly ; nature seemed to have been 
aroused under the magical influence of your remedies; my strength 
returned ; my mind appeared to be relieved of all melancholy, and 
again the pathway of life opened brightly before me. Only last week 
I returned to my native place, from whence I was taken years ago on 
my bed, hardly expected by my friends to reach my journey's end 
alive. When my old acquaintances saw me returning comparatively 
well, they could hardly believe that such a miracle could be wrought 
by medicine ; they say it seem3 ' like one raised from the dead, 1 to see 
me moving around again. As long as I live I shall be a walking ad- 
vertisement of your truly wonderful healing powers. Words cannot 
speak my gratitude. Once more I find happiness in living. If ever I 
succeed in accomplishing any good, I shall attribute it all to you." 

When Doctor's Disagree Who Shall Decide I 

Miss Mary C. Webster, of Pilcher, Belmont Co., Ohio, writes: . 
'• When I first told my regular physician who had been attending 
mo that I was taking your remedies, he said ; ' I tell you, Miss Web- 
ster, there is no use in taking Dr. Hamilton's or any other doctor's 
medicine, for you have no constitution on which to build ; there is not 
sufficient vitality in your system to respond to the action of the medi- 
cine ; no power on earth can save you, andJf you live a month 'twill 
be owing to the favorable condition of the weather.' The fact that I 
am still living, and far better than three years ago, is evidence that 
the doctor was not very correct in his remedies. 1 feel that it is your 
remedies alone that have kept me out of my grave. I attribute all I 
W) enjoy to the favor of God and your treatment ; and shall ever feel r 
\ grateful for my deliverance from what seemed an untimely death." t 

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Important Correspondence. 

By permission, I publish below the substance of a correspond- 
ence between a well-known clergyman of this city and one of Chica- 
go, 111., in relation to myself and my successful treatment of diseases. 
It explains itself: 

" To the Rev. J. T. M., Chicago, III.— Dear Sir : You write me 
to inquire about Dr. R. L. Hamilton. I have had extensive business 
dealings with him; have known him as an honored member of so- 
ciety ; have received medical advice at his hands, when suddenly 
stricken down by the dreadful visitation of Coup de Soleil, and have 
known him socially and as a friend. Dr. Hamilton possesses one of 
those natures gifted with a discriminating benevolence, an aptness in 
the selection of companionship, great versatility of business capacity, 
a high and exceedingly keen-sense of honor, a ready humor, a judi- 
cious reserve when among rivals in his profession, a kindness of de- 
meanor, wholly Christian, toward those who see fit to differ from him, 
a noble generosity toward a fallen adversary, a keen perception of 
the right in any controversy, and a gentleness mixed with dignity in 
his carriage, which marks him as a man above all mean and low 
tastes, ifis true that Dr. Hamilton is an eclectic in his profession of 
medicine. This, of course, exposes him to all the batteries of the 
bigota and the partisans of the pathies, if we may coin a word. He 
could never be sectarian in religion, he can no more belong to a 
water-cure school, a pill-worshiping sect, a phlebotomy-loving class, a 
school of sugir-pellet devotees, or expect to cure every disease by vom- 
iting a man down to his boots with lobelia. Dr. Hamilton is simply a 
man of good common sense, who knows that there is good in all things 
medical. The leaves of the tree were given for the healing of the na- 
tions, and yet there are mineral things, and things animal, and best 
of all, the pure air of heaven, and the glorious sun, and the ever-flow- 
ing w..ters, that come in their time and place to restore the sufferer. 
He is most thoroughly acquainted with all the good things of all the 
schools. H:nce, Dr. Hamilton has risen to be a marvel to the nar- 
row-minded of all the pathies. We need not tell you, our friend, and 
the friend of unity in the church, how glad we are to introduce to 
you the beloved physician of our acquaintance. We who mourn the 
schism in the Church of Christ, c»n appreciate a man who, by a 
judicious eclecticism, seeks to unite the sad and often terri/ic sectarian- 
ism of the doctors. 

" Dr. Hamilton is, therefore, a specific rather than a patent medi- 
cine doctor. He has a greater faculty of versatility, and can do more 
thing3, and do them well, than any man I ever met. As a business 
man, he could rival Stewart, had he the heart, or rather the no-heart, 
to wor? hip Mammon. We most cheerfully commend him to your con- 
fidence. He will counsel you wisely in the terrible battles you may 
havewith acute or chronic diseases. 
" Yours cordially, 
\ " Rev. H. D. KIMBALL, New York City 

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A Caseof Diarrhea of Two Years' Standing Cured. 

Mr. Ira B. Allen, Postmaster at Pole Grove, Wisconsin, writes : 

" Your medicines I have received, and used as directed. Most of 
the time for two years previous to applying to you, I had suffered se- 
verely with diarrhea, and had tried most every remedy, but to no pur- 
pose. I have strong reasons to believe that your remedies will have 
the desired effect, as I am gaining finely." 



Hope On, Hope Ever. 

41 Hudson, IU, 
11 Dear Doctor : I delayed writing to you that I might see 
whether the relief I had realized from your valuable medicines would 
be as lasting and permanent as it was unexpected and magical. I am 
glad to be able to say that I have experienced no relapse, and I feel 
it due to the sick and afflicted, and your indefatigable labors in their 
behalf, that I should acknowledge your skill and success in the treat- 
ment of Liver Disease. 

"Having suffered three years from a very disordered and de- 
ranged state of the liver, and having tried the best physicians in 
Jacksonville, 111., an adjoining town, and receiving no benefit, I de- 
termined to try your remedies, of which I had frequently read, and 
passed them by as a humbug. I tried one course, was much relieved ; 
tried another, and feltso much relieved as almost to forgetmy former 
troubles. Since that time I have continued to convalesce, and am 
now, comparatively speaking, a new man. I Bhall never forgetmy 
indebtedness to you, nor forget to cherish the remembrance of your 
name. " " Truly yours, 

"ARTHUR W. HARVEY." 



Case*of an Aggravated Stomach Difficulty. 

MrsT Mary A. Whitford, of East Florence, N. Y., writes : 
"Prof. Hamilton — My Dear Sir: Your medicines were all 
promptly received, and taken according to directions. Louise is a 
well girl again. I never expected to see her so well as she is. She 
can do a good day's work, and can walk a mile to Sabbath-school and 
meeting. She sends her most sincere thanks, and says you have done 
a ' great thing ' for her. Y°u have restored her sinking health in a ( 
very short time. We shall be grateful to you so long as wc live." / 
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A Clergyman's Eyidence. 

" Booxtox, N. J. 
" R. L. Hamtltox, M.D. : 

"Dear Sir : It is with pleasure I communicate the result of the use of 
your medicines. When I first visited your office in Xew York, I could 
scarcely walk from the cars before your doT into the office without 
exhaustion. "With all your presthre a3 a successful physician, I had 
but little hope that you could cure me. There was nothing strange in 
tins. Four years and four months had passed away, but during that 
period I had suffered constantly with chronic diarrhea and piles. I 
had some of the best physicians, and used every thing I heard of that 
I could procure, but all in vain. Why should I think that you could 
do me more good than others ? But, sir, justice and gratitude compel 
me to say that after the use ofyourmedicineforafewmonthstheresult 
was a complete cure. I ceased the use of your medicine about the 1st 
of September, and had no return of diarrhea until the loth of Janua- 
ry, 1864, and that attack I could trace to its cause ; indeed, sir, I can- 
not expect to be freed from liabilities to attacks of disease any more 
than other men. I wish I had the voice of seven thunders, and could 
assemble all the sick in the world, I would direct them to you, sir, as 
one fully competent to heal, and whose generous and noble nature 
would not allow cf exorbitant charges. 

" Yours, truly,. Rev. GEO. II. JONES."' 



A Celebrated Physician Acknowledges Beat. 

" Waukox, Allemakee Co., Iowa. 
" Dear Bccto2 : I feel that it would be injustice to you, as well as 
to myself, not to acknowledge what you have done for me. Last year 
I was sick, attended by two said-to-be good physicians, and given up 
to die. A neighbor of mine wrote to you for me, stating my disease, 
and you answered you could and would cure me. Your medicines 
were received, and after taking them till I was able to sit up to have 
my bed made, my family doctor called, and, seeing how fast I was 
gaining, said that it wa3 not your remedies that were benefiting me 
so much, but his, and made me believe it. I stopped taking yours, 
and continued taking his, until I realized it was killing me, and then 
commenced taking yours again, and soon recovered, and have been 
well ever since. I am able to perform the most arduous manual 
labor, which I have not done in 16 years. My family physician (the 
one who doctored me) said the other day : ■ Mr. Beeman, had it not 
b?en for Prof. Hamilton, you would have died last Summer, in spite of 
all we could do.' I submit the case of my wife for your considera- 
b every confidence that you will do as well by her as you 
have done by me. Believe me ever gratefully and truly vours, 

" CYRUS BEEMAN/' 



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Lirer Disease of Ten Years' Standing Cured. 

Mr. George W. Crocker, of South Valley, Otsego County, X. Y., 
writes : 

" I have used a portion of the medicines prepared for me, ana am 
much gratified in informing you that I have gained twenty per cent, 
in health. It is surprising to me, as I had not seen a well day for 
ten years previous to applying to you. I consider your remedies truly 
wonderful." 



UNPARALLELED SUCCESS! 
Got. Jacobs, of Kentucky. 






His Excellency, Ex-Lieut-Gov. It. T. Jacobs, writes U3 from West- 
port, Ky., as follows : 

"Dr, It. L. IIamtltox— My Dear Sir: I feel desirous of testifying 
to you my profound gratitude for the great medical skill with which 
you have treated me, and by which, under tbe blessing of Divine 
Providence, I have been completely restored to health. Since 1865, I 
have been Bubject to terrible and most alarming attacks. During that 
time my whole system seemed to be out of order. My blood wa3 
sluggish and concentrated to my head. My face would be flushed, 
while the lower extremities were as cold as ice apparently, and pave 
me constant pain. The top of my head would often feel as if I had 
an immense weight grinding and crushing in the skull, and this would 
generally end in congestion of the brain, when my life, for n time, 
would be despaired of. I never knew what it was to be free from a 
headache or severe pain beneath the eyes and running around to the 
back of the head and spine. My liver was so torpid that unless con- 
stantly under the influence of Calomel I would be seized with conges- 
tion of the brain. My stomach was very much out of order, and my 
tongue heavily coated. My kidneys would pain me so that I have 
frequently awakened in the night in the most terrible agony. My 
lower extremities were nearly paralyzed, and my sides much swollen. 
I was all this time, at the advice of my physicians, taking Calomel, Blue 
Mass, Dover's Powders, with Ipecacuanha in piils, Iron and Quinine 
mixed, and Iron and Quinine separate, still I felt myself inevitably 
growing worse, and it was only a question of time, and that a very 
short period, too, when one of these attacks would end my earthly 
career. I saw your advertisement, and read it carefully, and though 
struck with its good sense, yet under that education which has taught 
us to be prejudiced against advertising physicians, I passed it by 
Last September I saw your advertisement again. I then determined > 

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to try your remedies, for I felt that I was fast sinking into the grave, 
with all that the Allopathic School could do for me. 

" Death seemed inevitable. I wrote you giving my symptoms, and 
received promptly medicines and the assurance that you could cure 
me. I have taken your remedies according to directions, and I now 
feel entirely well. My blood circulates freely ; my stomach is strong ; 
my liver is no longer torpid ; my kidneys have ceased to pain me; 
and now I do not know what it is to have the headache or congestion. 
Neither do I feel my limbs c^ld and paralyzed. I can cheerfully say 
that I enjoy an energy and life that 1 have not felt for years, if I ever 
did. 

" Certainly, sir, I have abundant occasion to feel grateful to you 
for the great benefits received at your hands in so short a time. Sup- 
pose I do not know what your remedies are, as some urge, it is impos- 
sible for them to be as deleterious as Mercury, which rota the very life 
out of one, or Quinine and other such horrid stuffs, which leave the 
system in a worse state than they find it. I know that your medicines 
are of an entirely different character, from their effect upon me. They 
are exceedingly mild, and never gripe or sicken. I have noticed one 
peculiarity in your practice, and that is, you brace and build up the 
whole system at the same time. You not only cure the torpidity of 
the liver, but you strengthen the lungs and stomach, and purify the 
blood, thus completely restoring the whole body. If this should come 
under the observation of any poor sick wretch racked with pain, 
who finds no relief from Calomel, Quinine, Iron, and such like medi- 
cines, I earnestly appeal to him to try your most valuable discoveries, 
while I sincerely pray that the same wonderful results which have 
attended your practice with me, may result to him." 



Liver and Digestive Organs Cured. 

''"vTeldsport, X. Y. 
"Prof. Hamtltox. 

Dear Sir : I have used three-quarters of the package of medicine 
you sent me, and thanks to that wise Providence, whom all should 
bless, for the great good they have done me. I truly believe that my 
disease was of the liver and digestive organs ; and had I not received 
timely aid from your treatment, my difficulties would have termina- 
ted in liver complaint, and that I should have been incurable. I 
had been failing fast for the last five months previous to applying to 
you, although under medical treatment of three of the most skillful 
physicians in or.e of the cities of this State. Many persons are daily 
visiting me to see and hear of your miraculous skill, remarking that 
'Prof. Hamilton must be possessed of more than a doctor's power 
to cure you.' tome look at me with great amazement, after noticing 
the great change that has taken place in my condition and appear- 
ance in so short a time. I ride or walk every day, and can walk a 
mile. Truly, yours, 

" Mrs. D. C. HOWE." 



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A Bad Case of Liver Disease Cured. 

Mr. Samuel Curtis, Dacotah City, Nebraska, writes : 

" Prof. R. L. Hamilton— Dear Sir : Your medicines were received 
in due time, and I must, in justice to you, say that they worked to a 
charm in my complaint. I pronounce myself well. I have done more 
hard work in the last eight months than I ever expected to do. I 
cannot Bay too much in your praise for your skillful treatment of 
chronic diseases." 



Chronic Diarrhea Cured. 

Rev. Augustus Alvord, of Ridgebury, Conn., writes : 
"Doctor Hamilton— Dear Sir : When I began taking your medi- 
cines I felt almost discouraged, for my difficulty, chronic diarrhea, 
was of three years and a half standing, and I had consulted many 
physicians and had received no benefit. In a very few days after 
commencing to take your remedies I began to feel much better. I 
have not taken any medicine now for three months, and I consider 
myself well. I feel it a duty, as well as a pleasure, to make this state- 
ment, and I desire also to thank you for your kind attention and 
Christian advice." 



Is Very Thankful. 

Mrs. Amos South wick, of Chester, N. H., writes: 
" I cannot find language to express my grateful thanks to you, 
and to a kind Providence for his blessings on your individual reme- 
dies. They have truly acted like magic on my system in removing 
ills to which I have been subject for many years. My friends and 
neighbors begin to see and tell me how much better I look, I call my 
health g^od now. It has not been so good for more than thirty years. 
My appetite is good, and every thing I eat sets well. Nothing seems 
to disagree. I think you will have patients from this vicinity soon, 
as I am recommending your treatment to the afflicted, and they 
know how I have improved. I feel like another person. The press- 
ure and rash of blood to my head, the soreness and pain in my right 
side and shoulder, and the swelling and bloat, are all gone. I really 
did not believe it possible that I could be cured of so many ills in so 
short a time. Long may you live, and great success may you always 
k have in relieving the afflicted, and may Heaven's choicest blessings (i 
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Liyer Disease Cured ! 



Read this testimony from Miss Crouch, of Schoharie County, 
N. Y. : 

" West Conesvtlle. 

" Dr. Hamilton— Respected Sir : I embrace the present moment 
to write a few lines to you to inform you of the effect of some medicines 
received from you last spring. The medicines were prepared as soon 
as received, and I commenced to use them. For the first two or three 
days I felt very little effect. I was in this condition seven or eight 
days, when I discovered a change for the better was slowly taking 
place ; the dull, heavy headache was gone ; my sleep was quiet and 
refreshing ; food seemed to nourish instead of distressing me ; indeed, 
the best way I can express the change is this : It was like taking 
down an old building, repairing the waste places, and building up 
anew. We have delayed writing to see whether the cure was perma- 
nent or not. I have reason to believe it is lasting. I believe your 
remedies to be very efficacious in eradicating diseases from the sys- 
tem, and can with confidence recommend them to the afflicted. 

"May you long be spared to bless the human family in the exercise 
of your great skill is the sincere wish of your very grateful friend, 

" Martha Crouch." 



Consumption Cured. 

D. Loucks, of West Martinsburg, N. Y., writes : 

M R. L. Hamiltox, M.D. — Dear Sir: With thankfulness to a kind 
Providence and your skill, my daughter, Mrs. Vanderburgh, has about 
recovered her former good health. Our doctor says fyer lungs are 
healed. She is decidedly smart, and her countenance has much of 
her former healthful look. She is also improving in strength every day. 
My son, H. H. Loucks, is also improving. His case seems more obsti- 
nate, but is giving way. I think both of them would have been in 
their graves by this time, if it had not been for your treatment ; and 
I can assure you that I feel very thankful for your skillful and suc- 
cessful treatment." 



" Benefited Her 3Iore than all the Remedies." 

Mrs. E. A. Ellsworth, of Dannemora, Clinton Co., N. Y., writes : 
'• About one year ago I sent for and received your medicine, which 
beneStei me more than all the remedies I ever used in my life, and 
I now want you to let me know what you can do fv>r a neighbor of 
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Important Cure of Liver Disease. 



"Litchfield, Conn. 
" Doctor Hamilton — Dear Sir . I took your medicines according 
to directions, and I feel that they have done for me what medicines 
never did before. I feel real well — better than I have before for five 
or six years, and I hnoxo it is what you have done for me, and I am 
very grateful to you for what you have done. 

" ours respectfully, 

« GEO. H. TROWBRIDGE." 



Reports the Good Results. 

"Groton, Caledonia Co., Vt. 
"Dr. Hamilton— Deor Sir: naving about a year ago been my- 
self completely restored to health by your wonderful medicines, after 
suffering with diseased liver, and believing that you saved my life, 
and being now in the enjoyment of better health from the result of 
your remedies than I have been in many years, I now write you for 
my sister, who has been in very poor health for the last two years. I 
have no doubt but that you will cure her. I herein send you a state- 
ment of her complaints, which please examine and then reply. 

" I am, and ever will be truly grateful, and may Heaven reward 
you. EMILY A. ORR." 



He Rejoices. 

" Woodstock, Vt. 
"Prof. R. L. Hamilton — Dear Sir: Previous to the receipt of 
your medicines, which reached me about two months ago, I had been 
suffering with a diseased liver of over ten years' standing. During 
the time, I was subject to severe headache, heartburn, sour stomach, 
unsteady appetite, pains in my side, and low spirits, could not rest 
nights, was easily excited and dull. I commenced taking your reme- 
dies, having butlittle faith that they would help me. It was but a 
few days afterward that I discovered a great and decided change in 
my feelings. I have gained rapidly, those bad feelings have disap- 
peared, and I feel to-day like a new man. You have my most sincere 
thanks f r your kindness and attention, and I advise all who are suf- 
fering from disease to apply at once to you for relief. May God's 
choicest blessings rest upon you through life. 

" Very respectfully, 

" C. A. WOODBURY." 

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General Consumption. 

Mrs. John Sparks, of "West Union, Ohio, writes : 

" Dear Doctor : I have taken your medicines according to direc- 
tion?, and I am astonished at the wonderful cure they have performed 
in my case. I do as much work now as I ever did. I have a good 
appetite and sleep well, and have gained about twenty pounds. "When 
I applied to you, our physician, and all who knew me, said I was fool- 
ish, and throwing away "money, for I never could be cured. But now 
they talk quite differently, as they have the evidence of your skill 
and valuable remedies in my restoration." 



Good from Iowa. 

" New Virginia, Warsaw County, Iowa. 

" Prof. R. L. Hamilton — Dear Doctor : I commenced taking your 
medicine last Spring, and feel that it has cured me. I was the most 
distressed looking being you ever saw when I applied to you fortreat- 
ment. I was as yellow as a pumpkin ; had pains in my head, breast, 
back, side, and shoulders, with soreness id the bowels. Nothing that 
I ate agreed with me. I had constant diarrhea, and my limbs 
seemed almost lifeless. I was gradually sinking. The doctors, and 
every one else who saw me, gave me up to die. But, through the kind 
mercy of Almighty God, and your medicine, I have been restored to 
health. 

'"Your remedies relieved me in three days after I commenced tak- 
ing them, and I continued to improve rapidly until cured. Were it 
not for them I think I would have been, long ere this, in my grave. 

" I cannot sufficiently express my thankfulness to you for the great 
and lasting benefit I have received by the use of your remedies. 
"Yours, with respect, 

" Mrs. NATHANIEL HYLTON." 



The Work Goes Bravely On ! Another Clergyman 
Cured ! ! 

The eminent divine, Rev. J. W. Hinkley, of Athens, Maine, writes : 
" Hy health has so far improved from the effects of your treat- 
ment that I am able to resume my pastorship. Had it not been for 
your medicine I should not have been living now. To you, with 
God's blessing, do I owe my worldly existence. I am a living expo- 
nent of the worth of your matchless remedies, and I shall hereafter 
deem it a part of my religious duty, to recommend all suffering with 
diseases of the liver or lungs to speedily apply to you. May God's 
blessing attend your worthy efforts for the relief of diseased and suf- 
fering humanity." 

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Mercifully Saves the Afflicted. 

Mr. John Lewis, of Ten Mile P. 0., Washington County, Penn., 
writes : 

" The medicine you sent me last spring acted like a charm. It 
relieved me very soon of a deranged state of the liver, stomach, and 
bowels. The marked peculiarity of your remedies is, while they act 
directly and thoroughly on the diseased organs, they do not depress 
or debilitate the system, like other liver remedies I have used. I con- 
sider you fully master of your profession, and from your open, fair 
way of dealing with me, I deem you an upright, conscientious man, 
as well as an accomplished physician." 



Speedily Restored, 

"Peoria, 111. 
" Prof. R. L. Hamilton, M.D.— Dear Sir : The medicines which you 
sent me reached me in due time, and I now take pleasure in speaking 
of their valuable character. There is no medicine within my knowl- 
edge that equals them. I am radically cured of my disease, al- 
though I have not taken but little more than one-half of the quantity 
you sent me. Truly, you are a public benefactor, and I, therefore, 
cheerfully add my approbation of your medicines to the many indorse- 
ments which you have received. 

" Very respectfullv, 

"THOMAS CONAGHAN." 



Many Kind Thanks ! 

" Auburn Four Corners, Susquehanna County, Penn. 
"Prof. Hamilton: I now improve the present opportunity to in- 
form you of the result of your medicine. It has effected a permanent 
cure, as the agonizing pain in my right side, which has troubled me 
for three years, has entirely subsided. My appetite is decidedly bet- 
ter, and the various symptoms, which I had at the time of applying to 
you, have all disappeared. My health never was better than at the 
present time, and I attribute all to the use of your valuable medicine, 
for which I shall always feel very grateful, and will do all I can to in- 
duce my diseased friends and acquaintances to apply to you, for I be- 
lieve your remedies to be all and every thing you claim for them. If I 
ever need any more medicine, or any of my family, I shall apply to 
you at once, as I believe it to be the surest, safest, and best to be 
had. I remain, yours at command, 

" Mrs. S. W. SMITH." 

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Has Reason to be Thankful. 



Mrs. Emeline Stover, of Industry, Franklin County, Maine, writes : 
"I had given up the hope of ever being well, before I received 
your medicine. I have been well nigh cured, and attribute all — yes, 
all — to your great healing power. I have not had a symptom of that 
dreadful headache in over three months. Have I not reason to be 
thankful for the good I have received at your hands? " 



Rheumatism^ 

James D. Pease, Esq., Trumansburg, N. T. 
" We (my wife and I) are recommending you to our acquaintances, 
wh» know what you haVe done for us, for they can see for themselves. 
Several, afflicted as my wife was (Chronic Rheumatism), will send to 
you, because they would have to pay twice the amount to doctors 
here for visits, and have besides to buy all the medicines at the drug 
stores. I want you to publish this as a great cure of that awful dis- 
ease, Rheumatism. 



It is with much satisfaction that I invite particular attention to 
the following voluntary statement of the eminent Divine and Mission- 
ary, the Rev. A. A. Constantine, recently located in the interior of 
Africa ; 

" No. 43 Ann Street, New York City. 
" Dr. R. Leonidas Hamilton, 546 Broadway : 

" Jfy Dear Benefactor : A sense of duty impels me to say that 
your medicines have done for me what no other physician has been 
able to do. I have been a sufferer for many years from disease con- 
tracted while laboring as Missionary in Africa. Last fall I was de- 
clining fast, and had all the symptoms of quick consumption. I ap- 
plied to you for help. You remarked, ' Before I get through with you 
I will make you feel several years younger than you have felt since 
you left Africa.' I thought but little of that, as I had often received 
similar assurances from eminent physicians both here and in Europe ; 
but in less than two weeks all my symptoms were entirely changed, 
and my health and strength improved very fast. In a few weeks I 
found myself in the enjoyment of better health, and able to perform 
more labor, mental and physical, than at any previous time since I 
left Africa. May God bless you in all your researches in His great 
laboratory, and make you His agent in restoring thousands to health. 
"Rev. A. A. CONSTANTINE, 



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An Old Lung Difficulty. 

C. A. Smith, Esq., of Paducah, Ky., writes : 

"Dear Doctor: My brother commenced taking youv medicines 
about 11 days a^o, since which time he has materially progressed to- 
ward better health. He sleeps and breathes much easier, and Lis 
strength is-returning very fast. He is gaining in flesh also. He covghs 
much le?s; indeed, yesterday, he walked with me some three miles, 
slowly, of course, and he coughed but once during the ramble, which 
would not h we been done at any time before for two years. You will 
hear from this place, in the way of other patients." 



A Complicated Case. 

Mrs. John B. Pannenter, of Hammond Creek, Tioga County, Pa., 
writes ; 

" Language is inadequate to express in a fitting manner, my deep 
and most heartfelt gratitude to you for having restored me to health 
by your medicines, (which I took from time to time as directed), after 
I had been severely afflicted for many years with a general debility 
of the whole nervous system, liver complaint, indigestion, and all their 
attendant consequences ; I was much of the time unable to be about 
my house, but I feel that I am now well and in a condition to attend 
to all my domestic duties. 

I am so thankful to you for the great benefits derived from your 
treatment, that I cannot speak too highly in your praise. I rest as 
well, and sleep as good nights as I ever did, and every one who knows 
me is greatly astonished to find my health bo greatly improved, and 
say that they, too, must try your rec:-aes." 



Chronic Dysentery Cured. 

Mr. J. N. Barnett, of Shabonier, 111., writes : 

" I received your medicines in duo time, and began taking them 
according to directions. I was at that time in a very low state of 
health, and was reduced to one hundred and nineteen pounds, and 
was barely able to walk across my room. My stomach was so much 
affected that the lightest food caused me great pain, and I had diar- 
rhoea all the time, ami when I received the medicines I was afflicted 
also with the dysentery very badly. But after taking the medicines 
twelve hours I found great relief. The dysentery was cured in two 
or three days, and from that time on I began to mend. I gained ten 
pounds in eleven days, and strength in proportion; and up to this I 
time I have gained twenty-one pounds, being heavier than I ever wa9 A 
before at thid time of the year." / 

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A Truly Wonderful Cure. 

" IteoiAiiK, Oxford County, Me. 

" Mr Dear Sm : Believing a statement of my case would be a bene- 
fit to the public, or more especially to a person similarly diseased, I 
Eend you this certificate. One year ago last June, I was taken with a 
very severe pam in my right side ; it continued to grow worse until I 
was obliged to stop all kinds of business, and finally took to my bed 
the mostof the time. The pain was so bad that I could get no rest 
night or day. I suffered beyond all description ; I had the advice 
and counsel of the best physicians in the State, and they could do me 
no good ; all they gave me was blue pills and morphine. I continued 
to grow worse until about the middle of August, when I had an ab- 
scess break out on my liver ; it discharged through the lungs, some 
pint and a half, or more, the first twenty-four hours, and then every 
twenty-frur hours until December following, it discharged from half 
to one pint, and then commenced to fill up again for two weeks, when 
it broke again, and continued to do so every two weeks all winter, 
till the middle of February, when they would rise and break every 
few days. It seems to me I raised a barrel of thick matter, or pus ; 
it was about the color of blood — perhaps not .quite as red. It reduced 
me so I was a complete skeleton ; the doctors all told me I must die, 
and that Boon ; they gave me nothing but morphine to ease the pain ; 
they said I could not live more than two weeks at most; I couldn't 
sit up at all — not long enough to have my bed made. I coughed and 
raised more than any person in a consumption ; I tried all the patent 
medicines of the day, and everything that could be thought of, and 
grew worse all the time. My side was so sore (outside) I couldn't bear 
my clothes to touch it : and to sum it all up, I was in a very bad fix, 
any way. A friend of mine got one of your papers, and brought it to 
me to look at; I read some of it. and thought I would try you— I 
could but die any way ; I had but little hope, there was so much 
humbug in the world. I wrote you, I think, in March ; your answer 
was you could cure me, and sent me some medicine. I commenced 
taking it the last of April. I commenced getting better from the first 
dose, and continued to till I was quite well. The 6ore never stopped 
discharging to fill up until after I commenced taking your medicine, 
and the discharge grew less every day until completely healed up, 
which was some time in August, since which time my health never 
was better. I can do as good a day's work as any other man, and 
stand it as well ; and I do know it was your medicine that cured me, 
and I do sincerely and hones; ly believe that any person that is sick 
(and their case is curable), that will get your medicine and follow 
your directions, they will surely get cured. My advice is, friends all, 
if you are sick send to Prof. R. L. Hamilton, and he will cure you. 
" I remain, yours forever, God bless you, 

"J. B. WATSOX." 

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Catarrh and Incipient Consumption. 

Mrs. Abigail Beeman, of "Waukon, Allamakee County, Iowa, says : 

" I have taken your medicines as directed, and cannot express my 
gratitude. I had not been able to do my work for eleven years, and 
during that time had taken medicines from the most eminent physi- 
cians in the West, but was constantly growing worse, and was not 
able to sit up an hour. I fear, had it not been for your valuable medi- 
cines, I should have been in my grave. Now I sit up all day, and I 
am able to work." 



Another Important Cnre. 

■ Millen's Bat, N. Y. 
"Prof. Hamilton — Bear Doctor : Rest assured that your medicine 
has done more for father than we ever expected could be done for him. 
When, some time ago, we sent to you for medicine, we expected be- 
fore this to have consigned him to the silent grave ; but thanks be to a 
merciful Providence and your valuable remedies, we are permitted to 
see him enjoying a good degree of health. 

41 M. A. FARR." 



Consnmption can he Cured. 

Wm. Neighbors, of Omaha, Putnam County, Mo., writes : 
" I take pleasure in giving you the following account of the effects 
of your medicines in my case. I had been confined to my house and 
bed for twelve months with a lingering disease. My digestive organs 
were in an inactive condition, my lungs were weak, and other symp- 
toms of consumption becoming alarming, I wrote to you and gave 
you a statement of my case on the last of August, and received a 
package of medicines on September 29, and commenced taking it im- 
mediately. At that time I was so weak, short of breath, and stiff in 
my joints, that I could scarcely walk. After taking your medicine 
about five days I began to mend, and shortly after went to work, and 
have worked every day since." 



Chronic Diarrhea Cured. 

Mr. C. E. Peabody, of Groton Junction, Mass., writes : 
" Dear Doctor : I suffered intensely with chronic diarrhea for a 
year, so much so that I was unable to do any business, and could not 
get any relief from the various medicines that the doctors ordered for 
me, or from the many remedies that filled the papers, until I was in- 
duced to try your medicines, which gave me instant relief, and in a 
short time cured me." 



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" "Webster City, Iowa. 
" Dr. Hamilton — Dear Friend : I feel that it is due to you, as 
■well as to all those who are afflicted with disease, to express my grati- 
tude to you for the great benefit which I have received from the use 
of your medicines. For many months I had had a pain in my shoul- 
ders and side, soreness across the chest, difficulty of breathing, hack- 
ing cough, sore throat, ringing and roaring in my ears. I was very- 
nervous and my slumbers were disturbed by frightful dreams, and it 
would seem almost incredible if I were to attempt to describe the ob- 
jects which seemed to be before me when wide awake. Sleep wns no 
rest to me. I had no ambition, and I had about come to the conclu- 
sion that unless I soon got relief my earthly career would soon be 
ended. I kept growing worse until I was confined to my bed all the 
time. My husband induced me to write to you, and your remedies 
came duly to hand, and in a very short time I began to recover, and 
am now ccmparatively well. I thank you, doctor, for your faithful 
attention, and I shall always recommend you to the afflicted. 
" With much respect, 

" MARY E. LYON." 

Diarrhea and Liver Complaint. 

" Mason Center, N. H. 
" Doctor Hamilton— Dear Sir : I feel that it is due to you, as 
well as all persons afflicted with chronic diseases, that I express my 
gratitude to you for the great benefit that I have received from your 
medicines. When I was taken with diarrhea, I tried the remedies 
used in such cases, to no purpose, and almost every one thought I 
must die. I was also troubled with liver complaint, so that I could 
not lie down with any ease. But through the helping hand of an 
All-Ytise God, I was restored, and gratefully do I regard you as the 
preserver of my life and health. 

"LUKE NEWELL." 

Epileptic Fits Again ! Another Perfect Cure ! ! 

" Dr. R. L. Hamilton — Dear Sir : My son was afflicted with fits 
for fifteen years. I read of you, and was so impressed with your new 
and simple theory of disease, that I would have him try your remedies. 
As you know, I sent for your remedies, which, with the help of God, 
have cured him. "Words cannot express my gratitude and joy, and I 
wish to make it known, as I deem it a duty to all afflicted with this 
awful malady to do all in my power to make known to mankind the 
true physician. And if any doubt this you may refer them to me, and 
I will satisfy them that all is true. I remain yours at command, 

"Mrs. EUNICE C.DOW. 
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Asthma Cared, 

Mrs. A. D. Clark, of West Waterville, Maine, writes: 
"Prof. R. L. Hamilton — Sir: After testing your most excellent 
medicines, and feeling sure that my life would not have been spared 
until the present time had I not used them, I feel that I could sound 
your fame all over the land, to all suffering humanity. When I first 
learned about your medicines, I was troubled with the liver complaint 
and the asthma, in their worst forms, and I was afflicted with other 
complaints, too numerous to mention. I now feel entirely changed, 
and have not had a symptom of the asthma for a long time." 



A Clergyman's Evidence. 

" PonrrvnxE, N. J. 
"Prof R. L. Hamilton— Dear Sir: I have purposely delayed 
writing in order to give you the results of your remedies. The medi- 
cines came to hand in due time, and I commenced using them as in- 
structed, and have persevered. For the first week I could not see 
much change ; the second week there seemed to be a giving way of 
the disease ; and at the end of the third week a decided change for 
the better was manifest. I am now able to walk about with ease and 
comfort. I send you my sincere and many thanks, and pray that 
God may bless and preserve your life for many years. I feel that, 
under the blessing of Divine Providence, you have done great things 
for me. Yours, truly, 

" Rev. ISAAC HUGG." 



Epileptic Fits ! A Splendid Core ! ! 






" GTTILDERLAND, N. Y. 

" Professor' R. Leonid as" Hamilton— Dear Doctor : I now write 
you concerning my Epileptic Fits, of which your medicines have per- 
manently cured me, and I send my grateful thanks, and can't but 
recognize you as an instrument of Divine Power in rescuing me from 
a terrible death. Words cannot express my gratitude and joy, and I 
wish to make it known far and near, as I deem it a solemn duty, to 
all afflicted with this awful malady, to do all in my power to make 
known to mankind the true physician. And if any doubt the authen- 
ticity of this, you may refer them to me, and I will satisfy them that 
all is true, and I will verify it. I have not had a fit since I com- 
menced taking your treatment, and I remain well and a picture of 
health. 

" I would write you more particulars, dear Doctor, but I know 
your time is valuable.- Yours, gratefully r 

"Miss A. KELDERnOTJSE." / 

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"Elba, Genesee Co~Teb727. 

"Prof. R.~L~ Hamilton— Pear Sir : I feel that it is due to you, 
as well as to all persons afflicted with disease, that I express my grat- 
itude to you for the great benefit which I have received from the use 
of your medicines. For some fifteen or twenty years my liver was in 
a very bad state, and my whole system was generally debilitated. I 
had been troubled with dizziness of the head so badly that at times it 
was difficult for me to stand upright, and I had a blindness periodi- 
cally, with a continual headache. My feet and hands were cold and 
lifeless, and for about a year I had been greatly afflicted with inflam- 
matory rheumatism. When I commenced taking your remedies I 
could not close my hands nor raise them to my head. While in this 
condition I saw your advertisement in a newspaper, giving the symp- 
toms of a deranged liver. I had most all of those symptoms. I was, 
therefore, induced to write to you, and state my case. I did so, and 
received your reply. I was sensible of the fact that unless I had 
help soon, there would be none in my case. In view of this, and by 
the advice of a friend, I ordered a package of your medicines, and 
took them as you directed. In two days I was very much relieved, 
and continued to mend. I sent you the money and received a second 
package, and before I had taken all of it I felt well. In about three 
weeks I had gained twenty pounds of flesh, and felt the vigor of 
youth. I had not felt that before in twenty years. Physicians here 
said that I never could be cursd of rheumatism ; but it is now four 
years that I have not been troubled with it. I am now about fifty- 
four years old, and am able to labor hard every day. I have reason 
to thank God that I learned of you, for the cure of my case was a re- 
markable one. I can most cheerfully recommend you to the afflicted, 
and have on several occasions done so. Many of my acquaintances 
have been under your treatment, and been entirely cured by your 
remedies. Truly yours, 

" M. HOLLISTER." 

" Genesee County, ss. : M. Ilollister, of Elba, in said county, be- 
ing sworn, says that the facts set forth in the above statement are 
true. M. HOLLISTER. 

" Sworn to before me, this 27th day of February, 1807. 

" II. Stillwell, Justice of the Peace." 

A Lady Recommends Them. 

Mrs. Mary A. Copeland, of North Pitcher, Chenango county, New 
York, writes : 

" Your medicines have worked wonders in my case. Since using 
them my general health has been good, and I am able to work quite 
hard. I h^ve faith in your remedies, and can, with pleasure, recom- 
mend them to all who are suffering from the want of proper medical 
treatment." 

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Important Case of Epileptic Fits. 

Read the following evidence of what my treatment has done in a 
case of this disease, hitherto considered incurable : 

" BCCKHAKT, 111. 

" Dr. Hamilton : My wife was afflicted with fits for ten years, at- 
tended with great spinal and nervous debility. She doctored with 
several physicians, but all to no purpose. I read one of your circu- 
lars, and was so impressed with your new and simple theory of dis- 
ease that I determined to try your remedies. As you know, we sent 
for your remedies, which, with the help of God, have completely and 
permanently cured her. She has not had a fit since, her back is 
strong, and her nervous vitality and strength have returned. As 
every attack she had was severer than the one previous, it is reason- 
able to suppose she could not have lived long but for the timely inter- 
ference of your wonderful skill To God be the praise ! for so speedily 
and miraculously have your remedies worked that I can but recog- 
nize you as an instrument of Divine power in rescuing my dear com- 
panion from a terrible death. Words can but inadequately express 
my gratitude and joy. I wish you to publish this, and spread it far 
and near. I deem it my solemn duty to all afflicted with this awful 
malady to do all in my power to make known to them the true 
physician ; and if any doubt the authenticity of this, let them write 
to me ; I will satisfy them that it is all true. May God's blessing at- 
tend you in your efforts for humanity's good ! 

"JOHN S. SHARP." 

You Hare Been the Means of Saying my Life. 

" West-field, N. Y. 
" Dr. Hamilton — Dear Sir: I have used nearly all the medicine you 
sent me, and herewith I inclose the money for another package. I 
think you will find few cases more obstinate than mine was. My 
bowels and back were weak and in a bad state, and many of my weak 
points seemed to be there. I had a very severe time with my head. 
I was so nervous and seemingly deranged at times that I got little or no 
rest for several weeks. I am much better now, and I fee! almost free 
from disease. I think one more package of your remedies will com- 
plete the cure. But you will hear from me again, for you have been 
the means, under the blessing of Providence, of saving my life. My 
faith is fully established, and I think I understand your theory, and be- 
lieve you are able to cope with any disease to which the human sys- 
tem is heir or liable. I had tried every other means and every oth- 
er physician that I had faith In, and when all had failed to benefit me, 
the Lord, by some special means, directed me to you, and from the 
first I had faith to believe that you could cure me. In fact, I have 
not for many years felt so well and free from disease as I now do. 
" Truly, your life-long friend, 
\ w " SIMEON McCORD." 

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Rheumatism — An Awful Case!! 

William H. Nellis, Oleopolis, Venango County, Penn., writes: 
" I return my sincere thanks for having permanently cured me of 
rheumatism, after having suffered severely for about seven years. 
When I had doctored with other doctors, and tried all the patent med- 
icines that I could get, with no avail, and was so bad that I could not 
get out of my house, and part of the time not able to get out of my 
bed, as I was affected in nearly every joint, I thought I would try you 
as a last resort. To my great joy, in less than three weeks I was able 
to go out and jump with the most active man in the place. In one 
month I was perfectly cured, and had gained seventeen pounds, and 
I never had better health in my life." 

How Grateful the Restored. 

" Frenchtown, Hunterdon Co., N. J." 
" Dear Sir : The medicines I received from you I have taken as 
directed, and I cannot express my gratitude for the great benefit de- 
rived from their use. My disease is entirely, and, I believe, perma- 
nently removed. I deem it providential that I was directed to you 
after all other means had failed. Depend upon it, I shall do all in my 
power to direct poor diseased mortals to the source of relief, which, 
from experience, I know to be a true one. I thank you, my dear doc- 
tor, for your faithful attention, and you shall always have my best 
wishes for your success in relieving the suffering of your fellow-crea- 
tures. Most respectfullv, 

"Mrs. CHARLES BURKTT." 

Rheumatism Cured, 

Mr. Charles Sherman, of Rutland, Tioga County, Pa., writes ; 
" My rheumatism, I think, is cured. Your medicine cureU Ay wife 
of Catarrh, and also helped her other complaints." 



A Good "Word from Maine. 

Mr. S. S. Woodman, of Cornville, Somerville County, Me., writes : 
"I was, one year ago, one of your patients, and took your most 
valuable medicines. Before I applied to you I had taken so much 
' doctor stuff' that I feared no klad would do me good. The severe 
pains I used to have in my back and left shoulder are entirely gone. 
My n lturally we k and feeble constitution has been built up, and (if I 
may be allowed to use the expre si on) I am an entirely new man. All 
this has been brought about by your truly effectual remedies. They 
have done for me more than 1 could have expected." 



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The Medicine was Good. 

A. J. Noble, Esq., Iowa City, Iowa, writes : 

" Dear Doctor: Tlie medicines sent were duly received, and had 
the desired effect in restoring my health, with much satisfaction to my- 
self and friends. My reason for not writing you sooner was, because I 
was waiting to see the result, if it would be lasting, and I am nappy 
to inform you that I continue to feel myself a sound, hearty man, 
thanks to your great skill and success. I have some of the medicines 
still left. They are so very powerful that a little goes a long ways. I 
feel strong and cheerful now, eat hearty and sleep sound. I will send 
all the afflicted to you that I can." 



Another Raised Almost from the Bead. 

** Br. Hamilton : My husband at first thought the medicine was too 
powerful, but he reduced the dose and continued to take it, and it 
helpea him wonderfully, and he has continued all the time to gain in 
flesh and strength. He says he has not felt so well for fifteen years. 
He is very hearty, and his food sets well, and he can labor with ease. 
We feel thatyour remedies havesj.ved him from the grave ; his friends 
and neighbors look upon him as one raised almost from the grave. 
The family physician had given him up to die. There are very many 
in our community that have great confidence in your ekill, on account 
of your curing Mr. Park, when it seemed his case was so hopeless. 
May you long live to bless suffering humanity. 

" Very respectfully, 

"JERUSHA W. PARK. 

" Pitcher, N. Y." 



Entirely Restored.^ 

"Dr. Hamilton: Thinking you would like to hear from me, I 
write to let you know how my health is. My health steadily im- 
proved until I was quite well, thanks to your most excellent treat 
ment. The disease i3 entirely removed, and I can never thank you 
as I ought for all that you have done for me. I can freely recom- 
mend you to all whom I may meet. May your life be spared long to 
do good, and may the blessing of God ever rest upon you, is the wish 
of Yours, respectfullv, 

L "ANNIE M. GIBSON HARGRAVES. 
"Towjssend Center, Mass." J 

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"Chattanooga, Tenn. 
"Dr. Hamilton: Kind and honored friend, this being my birth- 
day, which makes me fifty-three years old, I will give you tbe result 
of your treatment in my case about thirteen months ago. I was so 
weak — and my mind wa3 a3 weak as my body — I was hardly able to 
write at all. I was scarcely able to get around; I felt that if you 
could not cure me, there was no help for me, as I had tried so many 
medicines, all to no effect. Sleep had almost left me; Ididnotdraw 
a breath without pain. To sum it up in a few words, my case was a 
hopeless one, as I thought ; but, thanks to your skill, I now enjoy life 
again. I eat hearty, I rest well at night, and continue well. If I 
should ever have sickness again, you shall hear from me. And now, 
may the blessings of our Heavenly Father ever attend you through 
life, and spare you to a good old age, to administer to the wants of 
suffering humanity, is the prayer Of your friend ever, 

-"CYNTHIA L. HAIR.' 



Epileptic Fits Cured, 

"Daleville, Lauderdale Co., Miss. 
"Dr. R. L. Hamilton — Dear Sir: I am happy to inform you that 
your medicine was received and ised as directed, in the case of my 
son, who was afflicted with Epileptic Fits. Twelve months ago, after 
trying other doctors, I was induced to write to you, and received your 
answer and medicine; the result was a happy one. Thank God, he 
has remained well. I delayed writing, to see if it would hold out; he 
has noc had a fit since. If any doubt this, tell them to write to me, 
and I will prove the fact. 

"I am yours, with great respect, 

" Gr. B. WHITE." 



The Only Genuine Friend. 

" Dr. Hamilton : The only genuine friend I ever had, for such I 
feel you have been to me, for I was so near death's door when your 
remedies snatched me from the fell destroyer, as it were, and placed 
me on a firmer foundation than I had been for years. It seems to me 
you are certainly an instrument of God's mercy, placed here for the 
benefit of suffering mortals. And, verily, you will get your reward. 
Well, doctor, I have enjoyed better health this winter than I have for 
fifteen years, and feel that I am perfectly cured in every part. In- 
deed, I tell my acquaintances that what Dr. Hamilton doesn't know 
isn't worth knowing. Your friend, 

L" Mrs. RACHEL OTT. 
" Havana, Mason Co., 111." \ ' 

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Sore Eyes Cured. 



" About fifteen months ago I wrote to you concerning my little 
daughter, who was afflicted with Scrofulous Sore Eyes, and had been 
for some years, and it was thought by all who knew her that she would 
be blind in a short time, a3 my family physician said he could do 
nothing for her. You sent me remedies, which she took as directed ; 
and in one week from the time she began to take them, her eyes be- 
gan to improve, and by the time she had finished taking them she was 
perfectly well. I then thought I would wait through the warm weath- 
er of summer, and the changeable winter and spring, to see what 
effect it would have on her, before I wrote to you again ; and I now 
feel it would be ungrateful if I did not tell you and the world that the 
cure was complete, and that hot or cold weather does not affect 
them. They are clear and strong. My neighbors, who at first hooted 
at me for sending to you, look upon it as almost a miracle, for all 
believed she was doomed to blindness. You have my grateful thanks 
and my prayers, and I would urgently recommend those suffering 
from scrofula, to apply to Dr. Hamilton at once. 

4 'JOHN L.KEITH. 

" Freelandville, Knox Co., Ind." 



Your Remedies are Invaluable. 

" Prof. R. L. Hamilton — My Dear Sir: I shall ever feel thankful to 
God that I was, in His providence, directed to you, after all other means 
had failed to arrest the disease with which I had been Buffering for 
six years; and I had despaired of ever being relieved, when I acci- 
dentally, humanly speaking (but I regard it all providential), saw 
your advertisement, and resolved to try you as the last resort. Truly 
your remedies are invaluable. The relief I realized has proved to bo 
as permanent as it was magical. "When I had taken the medicines 
sent but three weeks, I experienced a decided change, and I was en- 
couraged to continue until I was able to leave my bed and resume my 
place in my family, in the enjoyment of good health, of which privi- 
lege and blessing I had been so many years deprived. 

"Nearly two years have passed 6ince my last communication to 
you, and I have experienced no relapse. I feel that justice demands 
that I should inform you of your success in the treatment of my case 
— of the magical and permanent effects of your remedies. Having 
great confidence in your skill, I can and ever will recommend you to 
the sick. For your kindness and faithful attention to me, allow me to 
remain Yours, most respectfully, 

"Mrs. J. L. HART. 

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Health Once More. 

" Your medicines have cured me. I enjoy health once more, that 
boon I knew not for so many years. I shall ever feel grateful to you 
for these blessings, and take untold pleasure in recommending you to 
the afflicted ones of this earth. You are at liberty to publish any 
statement •which I have heretofore made in your praise. I shall ever 
be yours, respectfully, 

41 NANCY BLAKEMORE. 
" Kibk's Grove, Ala." 



Thinks Well of Him— Can Bring the Bead Back. 

E. E. Edgar, Marion Station, Miss., says": 

" I feel well. I think I may say with safety, that you can come 
as near bringing the dead to life as can be — for my condition now and 
what it was proves this to me. I think more of you than any other 
man living, as a gentleman and a doctor, though I never saw you, 
and I write this from my heart." 



The Bight Spirit. 

Mr. Samuel L. Furlong, of Muskegan, Mich., writes: 
" I have cut out seventeen of the testimonials that were in the 
New York Tribune, and sent them to the persons themselves, with 
letters of inquiry about them, and also about you, and every one 
stated that they were true, and recommended your remedies very 
highly, also giving a history of their cases, which was, indeed very 
cheering to a poor man with a sick family." 



Strong Talk, 

" I received your medicines, and am a thousand times obliged to you , 
for you have entirely cured me of a disease which I almost thought 
incurable, and without your valuable treatment and advice I 
should have been a dead man. I would have written sooner, but I 
thought I would wait until I was sure that the disease was cured. You 
have my everlasting gratitude and esteem, dear doctor. 
" Very respectfully, 

"SAMUEL NESBIT. 

AVERLY, Mo.'' 



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Mrs. Harriet Greenup, Smithland, Ky., says: 

" I thank you kindly for the interest manifested for my recovery. 
I am well, and need no more medicine. If ever I should need treat- 
ment again, I will apply to you. 

''Your price for treatment was so very reasonable that I can safely 
recommend you to both rich and poor. I will only say, as is your due, 
that my strength is vastly improved — my side and shoulders are well 
— my heart beats regularly. Many thanks to you, by the blessing of 
Heaven, for the cure." 

A Sound Man Again. 

A. F. Books, Newport, Pa., writes me to the point, thus : 
" I suppose you think I ought to have taken more medicine, but 
the fact is, it is not necessary, as I am a sound man again. Your 
remedies have indeed wrought wonders in my case. Disease had to 
give way to your powerful, yet mild, remedies. I enjoy life once 
more — in fact, I am a new man. My liver and heart disease was of 
five years' standing, and your remedies have driven them from my 
system. I had been under treatment of different physicians for five 
long years, without deriving any benefit, until a kind Providence di- 
rected me to you. Thanking you for your kind attention and many 
advices, I remain yours, with a grateful heart. 

" P. S. — Send me some of your pamphlets for distribution to the sick, 
that they may know where to apply for health like mine." 



Gloom and Melancholy all Dispelled. 

11 NORTHFIELD, Iowa. 

" Dr. Hamilton— My Dear Friend and Benefactor (for such I must 
term you) : Justice impels me to express my gratitude. It has been some 
time since I finished my medicine, and I have had ample time to pass 
from under its influence, and am most happy to say that I am sensible 
of a most pleasing effect. I feel very much built up generally, and 
the gloom and melancholy are all dispelled. Your medicines have 
improved me wonderfully— in fact, I can say I am reconstructed gen- 
erally, both "in my mental faculties and physical capacities. It is 
needless for me to state how well you have sustained your veracity. 
A most remarkable effect has been produced on my eyesight. I could 
not read a half hour without the letters running together and my 
eyes smarting; now lean read as long as I please and experience none 
of these unpleasant effects. I shall remember with pleasure the name 
of Dr. R. L. Hamilton. 

" Respectfully and gratefully yours, 

"JOHNMcMTJLLEN." 



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Lung Trouble. 

Mrs. Benjamin J. Keith, Holmes' Hole, Mass., writes: 

" I feel as if I ought to write you how much good your medicines 
have done me. I feel a different person from what I did a year ago. 
I have had no return of the difficulty in my lungs or back, nor in fact 
any of the ill feelings I had before taking your medicine. My food 
never distresses me now. I thank you for your faithful attention in 
the past, and shall always recommend you to the afflicted ; and that 
God may ever bless you, is my prayer." 



"I am a Well Man Again/' 

" Prof. R L. Hamilton — Dear Sir : Duty as well as gratitude impels 
me to add my testimony to your superior skill ;a managing complica- 
ted chronic diseases. For twenty months I don't kne-w that I had one 
hour free from pain. Chronic rheumatism, liver complaint, right 
lung affected, bowels entirely dormant — in a word, I was sinking per- 
ceptibly each day, and had made my calculations from the past that 
I could not live more than one mojth longer. In this condition, my 
family urged me to try you. I had no faith. I had tried many reme- 
dies and found no relief. Why try longer? They urged, and I wrote 
to you. Your answer was, ' I can cuke tot:.' It seemed to me an 
idle tale. The medicines came to hand, and I commenced taking 
them on the 13th August. I waa one net-work of pain from head to 
foot It seemed to me that my old body was going to fall to pieces. 
This lasted but a few hours, and then began to subside. In about 
forty-eight hours my pains left me, the stiffness of my j oints left, and, 
in a few words, health came back, and, the best of all, itREMAiss with 
me. Thank God, through His blessings on your skill and efforts, I am 
a well man again. May Heaven's choicest blessing rest upon you, 
my dear doctor ; may you long live to bless your race. 

"Should any sufferer doubt this testimony, let him write to me, 
or to my friends that have known me in my afflictions and since my 
recovery. I would refer them to 
Hon. N. J. Wallace, Recorder U. S. Land Office, Dakotah Territory, 
Hon. A. Carpenter, Vermilion, Clay County, '" 

Peter Jourdan, Esq., •* " " ' 

James Curtis, Esq., Postmaster Liberty i 

E. M. Northrop, " Elk Point, Union Co., ' 

E. Morris, Recorder, " " " " ' 

and let them write to me for proofs. 

" Yours truly, my dear doctor, 

"JAMES C. : 
'Elk "Point, Union Co., Dakotah Territory." 



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A Little Boy's Life Sayed. 

" Clarksvuxe, Arkansas. 
" Dr. R. L. Hamilton — Most Worthy Sir : I am happy to inform 
you that my little boy, that you treated, is now healthy and fleshy, is 
running everywhere lively and playful. My wife joins me in the 
most sincere gratitude, for saving the life of our dear boy — for your 
medicine has, by Divine Providence, saved him. 
"Ever and truly yours, 

"J. J. ADAMS." 



" I should be very muoh pleased to receive your steel-plate like- 
ness, as I recollect with emotions of gratitude the time I solicited the 
attention and treatment of Doctor Hamilton, in my case. It was a 
success, for all of which I retain a grateful sense. 

"CAROLINE MATISON. 
"Barre Center, Orleans Co., N. Y." 



Dreadful Catarrh Cured. 

" I shall forever feel grateful for the cure you have made In my 
case — the cure of that dreadful catarrh. 



Saint Mart's, Ga." 



"Yours, truly, 

,l ELLA M. RACKLIFF. 



" Meaford P. 0., Ontario, Canada. 

" Prof. Hamilton — Dear Sir : I should have answered your letter 
long ere this, but I am feeling so well I thought it was not necessary 
to send for more medicine. I thought I would delay writing to you to 
see if my health continued good, and I am happy to tell you that I 
have not felt better for five or six years back ; and, sir, accept my 
sincere thanks. I feel very grateful to you, and hope you may long 
live to help the afflicted. I know that if I had not seen your adver- 
tisement, I should not be living to-day. I had been afflicted for a 
very long time, but now, by the blessing of God and your aid, I hope 
to push along well. 

" You may depend upon it, if any thing goes wrong with me or 
mine, you will hear from me again. I do all I can for you with the 
sick and afflicted around here, and, in conclusion, I would ask you to 
accept the gratitude of your obedient servant, 

"I, P. ANDERSON." 



Willis Clark, West Nassau, N. Y., says : 
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Joseph H. Kirby, Berwick, Warren Co., 111., says : 

" My own health continues most excellent, and so does my family's, 

thank God. I still feel grateful to you for the great benefit you have 

done me." 

A. D. Kendall, Esq., Cistern, Fayette Co., Texas, says: 

" I address you as a friend, because you have proved yourself so to 



Asbury Easter, High Hill, Montgomery Co., Mo., says : 
" It is now many months since I quit taking your medicine, and 
am still feeling perfectly well — a thousand thanks to you." 



Cures are Permanent — Read this from an Old 
Patient. 

" I feel that it will not be out of place for me to report myself, at 
least once a year. I am so well, and feel that, under God, I owe so 
much to you, that I am impelled to continually acknowledge the 
same. 

"CORNELIA A. VAN VLIET. 
" Jericho, Vermont." 



Doubts Removed. 

Jam,es Morrison, London City, Fayette Co., Ill,, says: 
" All doubt of you, as a successful doctor, with me, disappeared 
with the pain in my head and breast. These are simple facts." 



If you are afllicted with any chronic disease, throw aside, for once, 
any preconceived, erroneous notions in regard to an advertising phy- 
sician, who gives ample evidence of his skill and integrity. 

A Few Words to Our Patrons. 

OUR TERMS.— Sometimes people say, •' Why do you have pay in 

advance? Why not pure us, and then we will pay you? " A large 

proportion of our patients live hundreds of miles from us, and are en- 

- tire strangers ; and our only protection is to receive the pay before 

' ( we fend the medicine. No mercantile house In New York would 



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teem it a safe business to send goods on credit to strangers, and we 
must make our business safe. Our expenses are immense ; our medi- 
cines are procured without reference to cost ; we only use the best, let 
the cost be what it may. We invest in our business a large fortune 
every year. Our responsibility has now been tested for* twenty-five 
years. Is it unreasonable to invest a few dollars in an enterprise 
which interests your health, and perhaps your life ? In this way we 
treat all alike, impartially ; we devote all our energies and study to 
do them the utmost good ; and we depend for our patronage upon our 
success in curing the sick, fully realizing that we confer a blessing 
untold upon those we cure, and that such cures increase our business 
and our permanent success. Humanity prompts us to do the very 
best that is possible, and every testimonial we ever published is strict- 
ly reliable, as any one may ascertain by writing to the parties who 
have given them. 

TRICES. — Our prices are not high for the services we render and 
th« medicines supplied; and it is entirely inconsistent to always charge 
the same price for a supply of medicines. Of course, some cases re- 
quire a greater quantity of medicine, or more expensive medicines, 
than others ; and even when the medicines are precisely the same, 
the time required to make up an opinion, from the letter sent us, may 
be twice as great in one case as in another. We MU3T consider each 
case long enough to form an accurate and reliable opinion of its na- 
ture, and also of the best medicines for that case. 

WHY DO YOU ADVERTISE? — Some physicians profess to believe 
that it is not professional to advertise, and the above question is some- 
times asked us. We advertise : 

1st. Because it makes our enterprise known, and thousands who 
have been cured by our medicines have thus first learned of us. Ad- 
vertising multiplies our opportunities to cure the afflicted a hundred- 
fold. This reason is all-sufficient to any person who has a spark of 
humanity. 

2d. Because it is honorable. Some maintain that it is not honor- 
able to advertise, because " quacks advertise." Vill a i ns intrude into 
every kind of society, but that is no reason why we should not belong 
to any organization which we deem to be useful, honorable, and hu- > 

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mane. The more useful and honorable the enterprise, the more ought 
it to be made known to mankind. 

8d. Because it pays us, and we pay for it, and have a mind to ad- 
vertise. We choose to put our enterprise on record before the people, 
and we approve of encouraging every man to act independently, pro- 
| vided only that he does what he thinks i3 right. Any " code of 
ethics" among half-educated and wholly selfish medical men, which 
would forbid this, is contrary to humanity, fifty years behind the 
times, and utterly unworthy of an educated, independent, and con- 
scientious man. According to any such " code," any man who can 
cure cancer, consumption, or malignant diphtheria, should never make 
it known beyond his own circle of friends 1 "We should consider such 
a course as little better than manslaughter ; it would be to let people 
die because a selfish organization commands us " not to advertise " a 
skill which we know ourselves to possess. 

PREPARATORY TREATMENT.— To some patients, we send a 
small package of a suitable medicine, as a preparatory treatment. 
This treatment is entirely preparatory, and patients should not wait to 
see that it benefits them before sending for other medicine. It only 
prepares the way for other treatment, and thus makes the other treat- 
ment act better and quicker. As soon as you commence taking the 
Preparatory Treatment, send at once for other medicines, so that you 
will receive the medicines as soon as you have taken the first ; no time 
will be lost, and your system will be in a right state to be most bene- 
fited, and be surer of entire relief. 



Another Appeal to the Incredulous. 

So well knowing the general custom of the American people to de- 
nounce all advertising Physicians as " humbugs," without knowing 
anything at all in regard to their merits, that in addition to the numer- 
ous and wonderful testimonials from some of the thousands who have 
been cured by me, I publish below the names and addresses of a few 
reliable persons who know me well as a man of reliability and integ- 
rity : 

John Proper, Waterford, N. Y. ; Timothy Cronin, Attorney-at-law, 
No. 161 Broadway, New York city ; J. M. Emerson, No. 83 Nassau 



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street, New York city ; Norval M. White, Clerk in New York city j 
Post-office ; Dr. Palmer, No. 78 Fourth avenue, New York city ; Ed- 
ward Burlingame, Troy, N. Y. ; Harvey Wilcox, Ridge Mills, N. Y. ; 
G-. W. Lord, Attorney-at-law, No. 65 Liberty street, New York city ; 
Charles Van Benthuysen & Sons, State Printers, Albany, N. Y. ; Jo- 
seph Anderson, No. 81 Adams street, Brooklyn, N. Y. : Riley Merrill, ' 
Sandford, N. Y; Daniel Edwards, Otego, N. Y. ; Martin Decker, Rox-' 
bury, N. Y. ; Thomas Colby, Mores ville, N. Y. ; Thomas Fitch, Pratts- 
ville, N. Y. ; A. B. Sands & Co., Druggists, No. 141 William street, New 
York city ; Wm. Youngblood, No. 83 Nassau street, New York city ; 
John E. Van Etten, Attorney-at-law, Kingston, N. Y. ; Oscar Hamil- 
ton, Stamford, N. Y. ; Henry Biers, Chicago, 111. ; Coolidge & Adams, 
Druggists, No. 108 John street, N. Y. 

It must be remembered that the above are all good, reliable busi- 
ness men, to whom any one may refer by letter or otherwise, as to the 
reliability and honesty of myself as a man of business. 



Further Evidence. 

Below I give a list of responsible persons who have been medically 
treated by me with great success, any one of whom will answer 
questions by letter or in person, in* regard to my treatment in the 
ca3es. Had I the space, and were it possible, I would publish the hi 
tory and character of each case in full. Some of them were mc 
wonderful cures. But for want of space I can only refer to them ! 
a general way. I do this to give the skeptical all the evidence in my 
power of my reliability and remarkable skill. I further wish it dis- 
tinctly understood that I do not claim to curb all cases, for all re 
sonable people must realize that there is a point in diseased cond 
tions which no human aid can reach, however well and skillfully 
may be directed. In many instances of these grave cases the true 
physician can do much to soothe the pathway to the grave, and thus 
correspondingly elevate the undeveloped spirit, and give time to pre- 
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Tuthill Carter, Esq., Atlantisville, N. Y.; Mrs. Samuel Lee, New 
York Mills, N. Y.; W. C. Porter. Millwood, Mo.; Samuel M. Wagoner 
Esq., Dillsbury, Penn.; Ann C. Bradford, Potter, Penn.; Mrs. F. " 
Whipple. Cambridge, Vt.; Mrs. Sue J. F. Barnett, Pacolet Depot, S. 
Emilv W. Reid, Ellicottville, N. Y.; L. E. Fish, Esq.,Moline. HI.; M 
Ella ML Rackliff, St. Mary's, Ga.; Sabina E. Olds, Westport, N. Y.; Ja 
A. Pickett, Esq., Jacksonville, Fla.; Louisa O.Cobb Hubbardton, Vt.; I 
Adam Grubb, Louisville, Ala.; J. L. Higbee,Esq., Cattaraugus, N. Y., q 
Francis E. Wood, Esq., New Road, N. Y.; Alice Emonds, Racket River, / 

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N. Y.; Mrs. H. A. Taylor, East Troy, Wis.; Mrs. Mary E, Mitchell, 
Jersey Shore, Penn.; Mrs. Abirah Dedrich, Sterlingville, Penn.; J* H. 
Spencer, Sugar Grove, Ky.; Wm. Freeburn, Latrobe, Neb.; Herman 

•Hearlein, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.; J. M. Vansyckle, Esq., Wallula, Wash- 
ington Territory; Wm. Walker, Esq., Wellington, Iowa; Edward 
Hutchinson, Esq., Chatsworth, HI.; P. Schermerhorn, Bloomville, N. 
Y.; Mrs. J. Laidlow,box No. 703, Fort Wayne, Ind.; Marion A.Crandall, 
Nile, N. Y.; E. Kate Rodney, Coatesville, Penn.; Mrs. E. W. Chase, 
Warsaw, N. Y.; M. S. Hamilton, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mrs. C. M. Welsh, 
Farmer Citv. Ill ; Miss Mattie Lawrence, North Leominster, Mass.; 
Wm. Smith,' Esq., P. 0. box No. 53, Portland, Me.; N. E. Hicks, We- 
tumka, Ala.; J. J. Bisel, Lock Haven, Penn.; Mrs. Samuel Sawyer, 

. Grout's Corners, Mass.; Lizzie B. Harris, Winchester, Mass.; Rev. 
Washington Medaris, Sidney, Ohio; Mrs. H. Garrett, Kansas City, 
Mo.; Benjamin Berry, Esq., Matt ea wan, N. Y.; Alexander Hughes, 
Esq., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. ; Wm. B. Betts.Esq., Norwich. Conn. ; S. S. 
Parker, Esq., Alabama, N.Y.; Luke Newell, Mason, N. H.; Mollie A. 
Brooks, West Point, Ga.; Mrs. S. E. Blackwell, Cokesbury,S. C; Mrs. 
A. S. Childs, Richmond, Mo.; IL Houghton, LaGrange, Wis.; Mrs. D. 
Eggieston, Locust Hill, Mo.; Mr. E. J. Ireland, Shattuckville, Mass ; 
Mr. W. W. Pence, Indian Creek, W. Va.; Sarah Walker, Forest City, 
Mo.; Mr. Moses Tewell, Elbensville, Pa.; Mrs. D. M. Harber, Mack- 
ville, Ky.; Cordelia A. Yalleau, Portland, Wis.; Emeline E. Miner, 
Taylor, N. Y.; Mary E. Lecktness, Ainsworth, Iowa ; Herman Gainer, 
Farmers' Fork, W. Ya.; Mrs. Lou. M. Richardson, Cleburne, Texas ; 
G. Fairchild, Okoboji, Iowa; Mr. Walter Cline, Pitcher, N. Y.; Bet- 
Bey Richman, Manlius Center, N. Y.; Peleg S. Curtiss, Deer Isle, Me.; 
A. H. Thumbo, Lynchburg, Ohio; W. G. Fowler, Wilmington, N. C ; 
Mrs. L. R. Dyer, Grant, N. Y.; Mr. Irwin Seward, New Providence, 
Iowa; Hannah M. Coffee, Rural, 111.; M. V. Babcock, Auburn, N. Y.; 
Miss Mary W. Perry, Sandersville, Ga.; Mrs. F. Ballaine, Peverly, 
Mo.; L. D. Colbert, Esq., Washington, Ind.; Mr. J. N. Barnett, Sha- 
bonier, HI.; Mrs. Phebe L. Yance, Sun Prairie, Wis.; Rev. W. R. 
Black, Fredonia, Kansas ; Rev. A. C. Shepherdson, Three Rivers, 
Mich.; Mrs. Joseph Yallett, Batavia, N. Y; Mr. 0. E. Russel, Middle- 
port, Ohio ; Mr. A. Searles, Jr., Schaghticoke, N. Y.; H. M. Clark, West 
Farmington, 0.; S. H. Burch, Hiawasse, Ga.; Mr. David Holman, 
Stockton, Pa.; Miss Louisa J. Russel, Bonus, 111.; Mr. W. H. Cam- 
bridge, Pebble Creek, Neb.; Mary Ann Lawrence, St. Johnsbury, Vt.; 
Harriet Briggs, Brush's Mills, N. Y; Mr. J. C. Prentiss, Ravenna, 0.; 
S. D. Lounsbury, Rensselaerville, N. Y; Indiana Neville, Batavia, 
Iowa; A. A. Slater, Essex, Vt.; Mary Green, North Brookf.eld, Mass.; 
Angeline Phelps, Pine Valley, Pa; Rev. Thomas Sugg, Waco, Ala.; 
Nelus P. Nelson, Bedford, Iowa; James S. McCall, Society Hill, S. C; 
Mrs. Marcus F. Spaulding, Newark Valley, N. Y; Mrs. Rachel Ott, 
Havana, 111.; A. H. Duncan, Sparta, Tenn.; John W. Keeler, Oak- 
land City, Ind.; Mattie I. Thomas, Pottersville, N. J-, Rachel McEl- 
roy, Millwood, Ohio ; Edward G. Miner, Great Barrington, Mass., 
Albert G. Fay, Geneseo, 111.; B. F. Ward, Indian Springs, Ga.; 
Rev. J. H. Fesperman, Salisbury, N. C. ; N. J. Ackerman, Orwell 



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N. C. ; Mrs. T. F. Rantz, Quasqueton, Buchanan Co., Iowa ; Samuel 
Russell, West Union, W. Va. ; C. S. Markwood, Esq., Lancaster, Ohio ; 
Mis3 L. E. Fanshawe, Darien Depot, Conn. ; I. D. W. Bowman, Esq., 
Havana, 111. ; Jas. D. Pease, Esq., Trumansburg, N. Y. ; Mrs. DanieF 
Berry, Greenland, N. H. ; Wm. Humes, New Castle, Pa. ; Miss M. 
Atchison, Mendon, Mich. ; George Shaw, Port Severn P. 0., Ontario, 
Canada ; Mrs. Jesse Walker, Mattole, Humboldt Co., Cal. ; Miss Kezia 
Rosenberry, Upper Strasbourg, Pa. ; Sidney A. A. Clark, Harrison, 
Tenn. ; Lizzie J. Graham, Cumberland Mills, Portland, Me. ; Mrs. A. 
J. Horton, Eddyville, Iowa; Mrs. Geo. H. Trowbridge, Litchfield, 
Conn. ; John C. Calhoun, Greenwich, Washington Co.,N. Y. : C. Fair- 
child, Esq., Editor " Ovid Bee," Ovid, N. Y. ; Samuel Messick, Esq., 
Seaford, Del. ; Henry Doyle, Scranton, Pa. ; J. P. Cole, Weston, Lewis 
Co., W. Va.; A. B. Day, Galva, 111.; H. A. McDonald, Bremond, 
Texas ; E. Olmstead, North Wilton, Conn. 



How to Send Money. 

In remitting by draft or check, you have to pay the premium, or 
I have to pay the expense of collection, which I will not do. 

In remitting by money order, it is true that if the money order 13 
lost, a duplicate can be procured ; but this method involves so much 
delay that it generally takes from two to five weeks, according to 
distance, and all this time you are waiting for your medicine. The 
reason for this is, because after you notify your Postmaster that the 
order is lost, he has to write to the New York Postmaster certifying to 
the fact ; then the latter afterwards writes to the Post-Office Depart- 
ment at Washington, and after all this the Department at Washington 
sends me a duplicate, and then I get the money. This, you see, takes 
a long time, even if attended to at once and no more mistakes hap- 
pen to be made. I know of cases where it has taken as long as six 
months in getting this very plain business through, just owing to a 
simple mistake. 

In sending by express, you have to pay largely for express charges 
(which in every instance must be prepaid, as I will not pay the charges 
on money sent to me), and, although good as regards security, is 
more expensive than by registered letter, which only costs fifteen 
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Registered Letters, 



The reasons why I advise the sending of your money to me in a 
registered letter are as fellows : 

1st. Its cheapness— only fifteen cents. 

2d. Its securitt. "When a registered letter is delivered to me. I 
have to sign a receipt for it, which is sent back to your Postmaster, 
whose duty by law Is to give this receipt to you upon its arrival in 
his office ; and thus you can know with certainty if I have received the 
money, and not until then am I responsible for it. 

3d. Its KAprDrrv. Meeting with no express agents' delays, no 
banker's inspection, it does not have to be negotiated or collected ; 
rr is the money. 

In conclusion, I would say : Put your money carefully in the let- 
ter ; put fifteen cents in postage stamps on it, besides the postage ; 
take it to the Postmaster, and obtain from him (as the law requires), 
a "registered letter receipt" When the letter containing the money 
is given to me, I sign a receipt for it or I cannot get it, which latter 
receipt is forwarded to you, as before stated, and is your property, and 
if your Postmaster does not give it to you, it is presumptive evidence 
that the money has been stolen. You thus obtain two receipts, one 
from the Postmaster that he will send it, and one from me afterward 
(through him), that I have received it. NEVER send money in a let- 
ter without registering it, and ALWAYS procure BOTH of the receipts 
mentioned. If you do this strictly, there will be no trouble, vexation, 
or delay. 

The postmaster is under the obligations of his oath of office, to 
register your letter when you ask him. lie can be reported to the 
Postmaster General at Washington if he refuses, and removed from 
his office. 

52P~ All letters for Trof. Hamilton should be addressed thus : 

R. Ii. HAMILTON, M.D., 

Box No. 4952, 

New York City. J 

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Reader.^ 

, One moment, if you please, and we have done ! "* You, whV are 
now languishing upon beds of sickness and suffering, give ear to com- 
mon sense for one brief moment, and let us reason together for your 
own welfare and happiness. 

First : Have you carefully read the theory put forward in the first 
of this article? Does it stand the test of your own reason? Do any 
of the symptoms apply to your own case ; and if not, wherein do they 
fail ? Does Dr. Hamilton not give ample evidence of his skill to those 
who are afflicted with chronic disease, as treated by him with such 
unparalleled success for over a quarter of a century ? What, in all 
reason and justice, can you require MORE to convince you of his su- 
perior skill as a physician, and of his integrity and honor as a man ? 
It Is certainly foolish and out of place to cry humbug in this matter. 
Can you, for one moment, believe that ALL of the good, honorable, 
respectable and well-known business men whose names are given 
above as references, are imaginary men ? or that their names have 
been published by Dr. Hamilton to advance his own interests, as an 
impostor, to gull the people? Do you dare to cry "Quack" and 
" Humbug," after reading the strong testimonials which are published 
in this article, from reliable persons, who have themselves been saved 
from suffering and death by Dr. Hamilton's remarkable skill. 

Is it not wisdom and justice to consider all men honorable till they 
have been proved otherwise? Is it good reason to turn a deaf ear to 
all appeals of eminent physicians who give undisputable evidence of 
their skill and integrity, although you may have never before heard 
of them ? 

It must be understood that all who have sent to Dr. U. their 
testimonials for publication as above, are good, honest, reliable, and 
substantial people, who can at any and all times be seen or written to 
in regard to the truth or falsity of the testimonials. Hundreds cf 
others could be published had we the space, all of which are real, 
genuine, truthful evidences of what Dr. H. has done, and is still doing 
daily. Again we will say, that in no instance has Dr. n. asked or 
solicited testimonials from his patients ; all that are published are 
gratuitous contributions, sent with a request that they may be pub- 
) lished/or the benefit of the sick, and suffering, and for no other £ 
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Remember One' Tiling! ! ! 

Reader, do you think that you cannot be cured because you have 
tried other remedies and they have failed. It will be understood from 
my remarks, in various places in the foregoing pages, that many of my 
remedies are known only to myself, for many of them are discoveries 
of my own, and are compounded according to my own reasoning and 
extensive experience with the sick. 

All sick persons will observe that if they wish to be put upon a 
course of treatment which will cute them, they can write me their 
present symptoms, plainly ; or patients can mark the symptoms they 
have, as published on page 2T of this pamphlet: I can, in every in- 
stance, prescribe for them just as well as though I saw them, for I 
have, constantly, thousands under my treatment, in various parts of 
the world, whom I never see, all of whom I cure as speedily and safely 
as those I see in person—in fact, some of the best cures I ever made 
I perfected in cases I never saw. 

All I wish to know, in any case, is the most prominent symptoms ; 
and they can just as well be written as told to a physician, and I can 
treat the case as easily as though the patient were present. 

All invalids afflicted with the diseases referred to, or with any form 
of chronic disease, can write me at once, and I will answer you 
promptly and to the point, and state fully the facts as they appear, and 
whether you can or cannot be saved. Do not give up, even though 
your family physician has done you no good ; for I have saved thou- 
sands after all hope had fled and the grave was near. The wisdom 
and goodness of a just Providence will not withhold the noble means 
for the restoration and cure of his suffering and erring children. 

Also, if you expect a full and specific reply to your letter, always 
inclose ten cents. Postage must be paid in advance, and all 
persons under treatment who write us for advice, or any other pur- 
pose, must inclose with each letter ten cents, to pay for postage and 
time ; for it must be borne in mind that " time is money," and having 
so many letters of the kind every day, it consumes one-half of our 
time. 



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R. Leonidas Hamilton, M.D., 

is a thoroughly educated physician, a regular graduate of our best 
medical schools, a man of over twenty-five years' experience in all 
chronic diseases to which the people of this or any country are sub- 
ject, who has at this moment patients under treatment in every State 
and Territory of the American Union, in the Eritish Provinces, South 
and Central America, Mexico, West Indies, and Sandwich Islands, 
Europe, China, and the East. This will doubtless sound chimerical to 
many, but the evidence can be produced at Dr. II. 's office to prove 
every word true. It is also asserted, on the most reliable authority, 
that no one physician in this or any other country on the globe, of 
whatever age or position, has ever seen, examined, and prescribed for, 
one-half tae number of patients that Dr. Hamilton has. Again, it 
must not be supposed that Dr. Hamilton's treatment consists in Pat- 
ent Medicines or a few pet compounds, recommended to cure all 
the ills that flesh is subject to. On the contrary, Dr. LT.'s prescrip- 
tions and specific compounds are always made up, chemically and 
specifically, for each individual case, as they are presented to him, 
either in person or by letter — either of which is sufficient, if the com- 
bination of symptoms are properly presented, according to the direc- 
tions given below or elsewhere in this article. 

Again : No Mineral remedies are used in any case by Dr. Hamil- 
ton ; consequently patients are safe from those horrible mineral poi- 
sons so much used by some physicians. 



Conclusion. 

It would seem to us that, after carefully looking over the evidence 
given in these pages, all reasonable persons must be ied to the con- 
clusion that there can be no good reason for doubting the fact that Dr. 
Hamilton is just what he is represented to be — a very successful phy- 
sician in the treatment of Chronic Diseases. It is useless to cry 
" Humbug ! " for the patients who have been cured, and whose testi- 
monials are here presented, have -volunteered to give their evidence 
for the benefit of the suffering, and for no other purpose. All these A 
testimonials are genuine — are guaranteed to be so, in fact; and it is J 

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easy to write to them, and get from their own pen the facts. Any of 
them will answer all inquiries of this character. 

Have no hesitation in writing to me, and state to me your case in 
full, and I will deal honestly and promptly with you. 

All letters to me must be addressed thus : 

R. I,. HAMILTON, M.D., 
Box Xo. 4952, 

New York City. 
The number of the Post-ofHce Cox must be put on each letter, to 
secure safety. 



DR. HAMILTON'S OFFICE 



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PART SECOND. 

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE! 



Food that Makes Brains. 

It may be asked if the characteristics of branial food do not vary 
so much as to preclude the formation of any reliable j udgment in the 
selection of our diet. By no means, for, though our data is not so 
complete as is desirable, theory and practice have established much 
that is most profoundly valuable and altogether worthy of reliance. 
It is, indeed, of no small importance to establish that some kinds of 
food, even if we do not know them, must be more valuable than oth- 
ers for nourishing the brain — for, the general principle being ac- 
knowledged, the minds of thinking men will not rest till it has been 
made applicable. 

The next step is, however, to notice the undeniable and easily 
substantiated fact, that with each mental action, either sensation, 
emotion, intellection, or volition, there is associated, either as cause 
or effect, or as concomitant, a decomposition of a corresponding por- 
tion of the brain. Whenever there is a greafc mental activity, the 
earthly matter removed by the kidneys will be invariably greatly in- 
creased, which fact is noticeable by any one, however he may account 
for it. These phosphates do arise from the brain, where they are ta- 
ken into the blood, from which they are eliminated by the kidneys. 
The substance of the brain thus removed must be replaced ; hence, a 
suggestion of hunger will be caused. It is, however, a different sen- 
sation from that usually so called. This arises from a necessity to 
provide against the effects ©f cold and of muscular exercise, and is ex- 
perienced from the earliest periods of life. The sensation caused by 
the demands of the brain partakes more of the feeling of exhaustion 
that some readily, and others never, learn to recognize as hunger. 
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seem at once to "go directly to the spot." Our tables are usually- 
supplied with, food that experience testifies will satisfy a caloric and 
muscular appetite, and science justifies the arrangement, since there 
Is a sufficient amount of the kind that the ordinary activity of the 
brain requires. But when a greater activity of the brain produces a 
different kind of hunger, requiring a different kind of food, or a larger 
proportion of one class of it, the mind has had time or age to become 
Informed in regard to the nature and structure constituted for its de- 
velopment, and should know how to observe and interpret the corpo- 
real signals, and how to supply the materials for the special repairs 
of the body. But, alas ! men have been so busy with the introspec- 
tion of mental development and phenomena, by means of conscious- 
ness, that they have forgotten to trace the relations of mind to the 
body. Thus the mechanism becomes more and more exhausted, and 
they have not the ability to revivify it, from a want of the knowledge 
of material conditions upon which continued mental action depends. 

The pith of the whole matter, then, is this : The ordinary food of 
our tables Is composed of the elements required for producing heat, 
renewing muscles, supplying secretions, and maintaining the ordinary 
repairs of the brain. The man, however-, who is exposed to extreme 
cold weather, finds his appetite demands large quantities of fat, or 
> food corresponding in its powers of producing heat ; so the man who 
is freely perspiring has often a return of thirst; and the man who 
vigorously exercises his muscles cannot endure without corresponding 
hearty food. The same idea must be and is true of the man who is 
exercising his brain actively for hours together ; he must either eat 
enormously of the kinds of food that contain but little of the kind he 
requires, which is injudicious — or, which is more proper, he must se- 
lect for his use those kinds of food in which the material best adapted 
for his use abounds. 

What kinds are they? is the very question with which we started 
upon our inquiry. 

"We know that from the contents of an egg-shell all the parts of a 
chicken are constructed. The shell must, therefore, contain the ele- 
ments of brain properly conditioned to be readily wrought into it. 
The experience of ages testifies that in cases of nervous debility, " a 
i raw egg before breakfast" is particularly strengthening. It may be 
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ly digested branial food. Indeed, at almost any price per dozen, eggs, 
taken in reasonable numbers, if properly cooked, are not only the 
best, but the cheapest kind of meat that can be used. Eggs, however, 
afford a particularly good example of the different value of articles 
called by the same name. Those with light-colored yolks ara not so 
rich for cake, nor so good for man, as those with deep-colored yolks. 
Duck eggs are particularly rich. The eggs of hens fed upon bugs, 
worms, grasshoppers, and upon fish, are deeper colored and richer 
than those of fowls fed upon corn, etc. This leads to the remark, that 
many a literary man has found delicious refreshment in a dish of 
oysters, sardines, or other fish, more particularly those that abound 
in phosphorescent qualities ; such give great content to the stomach 
goaded to appetite by an exhausted brain. Now, as phosphorus has 
been found to abound more in the brain than in any other corporeal 
organ, is it not plainly shown that there is a relation between the 
kinds of food mentioned and the brain, and when this faithful servant 
asks for bread, shall we offer it a stone ? 

Every one who has had any thing to do with a horse, knows that he 
becomes a more nervously active animal if fed upon oats, than if fed 
upon grass or upon corn, and that "wheat will also put the life into 
him." Whoever, also, has had a Scotch master, scholar and compan- 
ion, knows that great nervous endurance will be necessary to keep 
pace with the Scotch mind. lias this fact no relation to the oatmeal 
cakes that are a by-word for the land whence he came? All prepara- 
tions of oatmeal will make Scotch metaphysics easy to take, and no 
other physic necessary. 

Again, Graham, with his "scratch the alimentary canal" idea, 
brought into vogue the fashion of eating unbolted wheat, overvaluing 
the bran, that he thought was pregnant with virtues. Had he bolted 
out the bran, the bread would have been improved, since its virtues 
are latent in the brown part, between the bran"and the white flour. 
The brown contains the chief part of the phosphate of the wheat, and 
is, for branial purposes, worth ten times as much per pound as the 
white flour. Indeed, the brown or middlings, or kernel, or grudgeons 
of the wheat, is the cheapest brain food that the market supplies. Un- 
bolted wheat flour comes next in order, cracked wheat being In the 
same category. Wheat entire, boiled, or brought almost to boiling 
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eaten plain, as a raush, or used as a basis for many delicious.artlcles. 
The Arab3 find beans an excellent food for horses, and like peas, if 
suSclently cooked, so as to render them easily digested, make excel- 
lent food for the brain. 

One other article may be mentioned, that it seems would so readily 
be recognized as adapted to branial nutrition that no mention of it 
would be necessary. But it is as true as strange, that nine-tenths of 
the American people do not make any use of the brains of animals, 
casting them aside as if unfit for food — which is distinctly to say they 
do not make full use of their own. Brains are, in fact, the most valu- 
able per pound of any part of a creature ; easily digested, they can in 
various ways bo cooked so as to be deliciously palatable. It is certain- 
ly an ad captandum argument, that the brains of animals must 
form a useful kind of food to the man who is called upon for extraor- 
dinary branial activity. The old proverb that each part strengthens a 
part, would certainly apply in this case. The decisions of science and 
the testimony of experience agree that in this case the ad captandum 
Is worthy of entire confidence. More food of this kind is believed to 
be thrown away in this State than would, if estimated at its real value, 
equal all the expenses of public education in the State. 

Science, experience, and reasoning from analogy and from the na- 
ture of the case, arrive at the same conclusion in respect to the char- 
acter of certain kinds of food, and the relations they sustain to the 
brain ; and while we are thus shown what we should use for the best 
effect, It is highly gratifying to learn that those kinds of food that are 
best for the brain are also the cheapest in price, and may be pre- 
pared in several ways, so as to be most delicious to the palate. 

There certainly is no need of a homily to awaken emotions of 
gratitude and admiration toward the Infinite Wisdom and Goodness 
that has thus provided food for man'3 good and for his enjoyment, 
with ease in attainment. It will also be gratifying to notice that when 
the cold winter is softening into the mildness of spring, and the body 
no longer heeds the heat-producing elements that are found in oats, 
wheat, and other grains, the fowl3 bestir themselves to provide eggs 
for the needs of intellectual men, and immense schools of fish pour 
themselves along our coasts and into our rivers, inviting the net to 
dip them out for man's use. The wide ocean seems to be a storehouse 
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he is in spring supplied by that which he may eat abundantly to sup- 
ply all the wants of the brain, without overloading the blood with 
heat-producing and torpifying food. Thus it is seen that the solid 
framework of the earth was laid, its gigantic mountain ribs built up, 
its sublime ocean depths furrowed out, and even the poles turned 
askant, that man might feed hi3 body with food appropriate in the 
various seasons for intellectual development, as well as by the grand- 
eur and adaptation of nature directly nourish in his soul adequate 
notions of the Deity. 



Cheap Bread. 



"Bread and butter" are the only articles of food of which we 
never tire for a day, from early childhood to extreme old age. A 
pound of fine flour or Indian (corn) meal contains three times as much 
meat as one pound of butchers' roast beef, and if the whole product 
of the grain, bran and all, were made into bread, fifteen per cent, 
more of nutriment would be added. Unfortunately the bran, the 
coarsest part, is thrown away ; the very part which gives soundness 
to the teeth, and strength to the bones, and vigor to the brain. Five 
hundred pounds of fine flour give to the body thirty pounds of the 
bony element, while the same quantity of bran gives one hundred and 
twenty-five pounds ! This bone i3 " lime," the phosphate of lime, the 
indispensable element of health to the whole human body, from the 
want of the natural supply of which multitudes of persons go into a 
general " decline." But swallowing phosphates in the shape of pow- 
ders, or in syrups, to cure these declines, has little or no virtue. The 
articles contained in these phosphates must pass through nature's 
laboratory, must be subject to her manipulations, in alembics speci- 
ally prepared by Almighty power and skill, In order to impart their 
peculiar virtues to the human frame. In plainer phrase, the shortest, 
safest, and most infallible method of giving strength to the body, 
bone, and brain, thereby arresting disease, and building up the con- 
stitution, is to eat and digest more bread made out of the whole grain, 
whether of wheat, corn, rye, or oats. But we must get an appetite 
for eating more, and a power of digesting more. Not by the artificial 
and lazy method of drinking bitters and taking tonics, but by moder- 



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ate, continued, and remunerative muscular exercise in the open air, 
every day, rain or shine. And that we may eat the more of it, the 
bread must be good and cheap and healthful ; and that which com- 
bines these three qualities to a greater extent than any other known j 
on the face of the globe, as far as we know, is made thus : To two i 
quarts of corn (Indian) meal add one pint of bread sponge ; water 
sufficiently to wet the whole ; add one-half pint of flour and a tea- 
spoonful of salt. Let it rise; then knead well, unsparingly, for the 
second time. Place the dough in the oven, and 1st it bake an hour 
and a half. Keep on trying until you succeed in making a light, 
well-baked loaf. Our cook succeeded admirably by our directions at 
the very first trial. It costs just half as much as bread from the finest 
Tamily flour, is lighter on the stomach, and imparts more health, 
vigor, and strength to the body, brain, and bone. Three pounds of 
such bread (at five cents a pound for the meal) afford as much nutri- 
ment as nine pounds of good roast beef (costing, at twenty -five cents, 
two dollars and twenty-five cents), according to standard physiological 
tables. 



Eating Economically. 



What kind of food has the most nourishment and costs the least, is 
a question of great practical importance. The following tables may 
be studied with considerable int«rest by every family. They will show 
the mode of preparation, the amount of nutriment, and the time "re- 
quired for the digestion of the most common articles of food placed 
upon our tables. A dollar's worth of meat, at twenty-five cents a 
pound, goes as far as fifty cents' worth of butter, at half a dollar a 
pound. Three pounds of flour, at eight cents a pound, are said to con- 
tain as much nutriment as nine pounds of roast beef, which, at 
twenty-five cents, is two dollars and a quarter ; that is, twenty-five 
Cents' worth of flour goes as far as nine times that much money spent 
for roast beef, as weighed at the butcher's stall A pint of white beans, 
weighing one pound, and costing seven cents, contains as much nutri- 
ment as three pounds and a half of roast beef, costing eighty-seven 
and a half cents. Of all the articles that can be eaten, the cheapest ~ 
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(Indian) goes as far as a pound of flour; so that, fine family flour at 
sixteen dollars a barrel, in New York city, in July, 1870, and corn 
meal at four cents, the latter is just one-half less expensive. If corn 
and wheat were ground, and the whole product, bran and all, were 
made into bread, fifteen per cent, of nutriment would be saved, with 
much greater healthfulness. These are standard tables : 



Quantity of 


Mode of 


A mount of 


Time of 


Food. Priparation. 


Nutriment. 


Viyettidn. 


Cucumbers 


..Raw 


2 per cent 




Turnips 


..Boiled ... 


....4 " 


3.30 


Milk 


. .Fresh. ... 
..Boiled.... 


.... 7 " 
1 " 


2.15 


Cabbage 


4.80 


Apples 


. .Raw 


....10 " 


1.50 


Potatoes 


..Boiled ... 


....13 " 


2.30 


Fish 


. .Broiled.... 


....20 " 


2.00 


Venison 


(t 


....22 " 


1.30 


Pork 


. .Roasted... 


....24 " 


5.15 


Veal 


« 


. ..25 " 
...26 " 


4.00 


Beef 


3.30 


Poultry 


" 


....27 " 


2.45 




.Baked 


. . . .30 " 
....80 " 


3.15 


Bread, wheat . .. 


3.30 


Bread 


u 


....80 " 


3.30 


Beans 


.Boiled. 


....67 " 


2.30 


Rice 




....88 " 


1.00 


Butter and Oils. 




....96 " 


3.30 


Sugar and Syrups 




....96 " 


3.30 



Corn Against Pork and Beef. 

I believe it is not generally known that it takes about ten pounds 
of corn to make one pound of beef or pork. Nevertheless, it is a fact, 
which has been fully demonstrated by careful experiments. It is also 
an established fact, that one pound of corn contains more than twice 
as much nutritious matter as a pound of average butchers 1 meat. 
Thus butchers' meat furnishes in all only 36.6 parts in 100 of solid 
matter, to 63.4 of water ; while corn meal contains 90 parts in 100 of 
solid matter, and only lfl of water. 



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Now, in following out and applying these facts, we arrive at con- 
clusions that may be, to some, hot a little startling. We find, for ex- 
ample, that the change of corn into beef and pork, especially the lat- 
ter, is a most palpable Violation of the laws of domestic and political 
economy. For if it should be taken for granted that we raise 
800,000,000 bushels of corn in the United States in a year (and this is 
estimated to be the fact, by Mr. John Jay, of the Geographical and 
Statistical Society of New York), is it not safe to suppose that at least 
one-half of it is employed in fattening animals ? And if it takes as 
much corn to make a pound of pork as it does to make a pound of 
beef, then here is a waste of 360,000,000 bushels of this valuable prod- 
uct : or, at fifty cents a bushel, of $180,000,000 \ even though we ad- 
mit that a pound of beef contained as much nutritious matter as a 
pound of corn, which we have seen above is not true. 

If it is said, as it may be, that this is a national loss rather than a 
loss to individuals, I should like to know how it can be made out. I 
see no reason why a national is not a loss to each individual making 
up that nation— and, in general, a loss which fall3 upon all about 
equally. If this is so, and we take our present population to be 
80,000,000, here is a loss of six dollars to each individual, or thirty 
dollars for a family of five persons. If, however, we admit the corn 
to be twice as much per pound as the beef— I mean for all the pur- 
poses of human nutrition — then the loss, of course, is double that sum, 
or sixty dollars to a family. Are we able and willing to bear this 
loss ? Some may say they prefer the beef and pork, because it makes 
them warmer than corn bread. But, if this were admitted, the differ- 
ence in favor of the animal food could not be as great as ten to one. 
It is not to be admitted, however. Corn meal contains 77 parts in 100 
of the heat-forming principle, and butchers' meat only a fraction 
over 14 parts in 100. 

It may be said that the beef and pork taste better than the Johnny- 
cake or the pudding. Not to the inhabitants of those countries that 
are sustained almost wholly on corn. Nor do they, Indeed, to any 
one whose taste is pure and unperverted. It is a species of cannibal- 
ism in human society that makes a person relish flesh and blood, with 
all the filth that belongs to every part and parcel of them — some 
items of which it would not do, for decency's sake, to specify. 



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PART THIRD, 

MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. 



Preserving Sinks from Foulness. 

In hot weather it Is almost impossible to prevent sinks becoming 
foul, unless some chemical preparations used. One pound of copper- 
as dissolved in four gallons of water, poured over the sink three or 
four times, will completely destroy the offensive odor. As a disin- 
fecting agent to scatter around premises affected with any unpleasant 
odor, nothing is better than powdered charcoal. All sorts of glass 
vessels and other utensils may be effectually cured from offensive 
smell by rinsing them with charcoal powder, after the grosser impu- 
rities have been scoured off with sand and 6oap. 



Chemical Action of Light. 

Never shade a house. Let sunlight into every room, and let every 
inhabitant feel its influence. Man requires sunlight as much as plants ; 
sunlight and fresh air are essential to health. 



A Fine Cologne. 



Take one quart of good alcohol, one ounce each oil lavender and 
oil lemon, one dram oil cinnamon, two drams extract or tincture of 
musk, and six drops ottc of rose ; mix well together. This is a fine 
cologne, if the ingredients are all pure and reliable. 



Perfume for the Handkerchief. 

Take one pint best cologne spirits, half ounce oil jessamine, 
one-fourth ounce oil ge anium, half ounce extract of musk, or those 
that prefer it may add six drops of otto of rose instead ; mix, and bot- 
tle tight. Very choice. 

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Hungarian Hair Oil, 

Take four ounces each of strong alcohol and castor oil, tinct. of 
red sanders or alkanet half-ounce, oil bergamot, oil lavender, oil 
lemon, of each one dram. Mix thoroughly and bottle. 



To Make Sticking- Salve. 

Three pounds resin, half pound of mutton tallow, half pound of 
beeswax, and a tablespoonful of sulphur, melted, poured Into cold 
water, and worked and pulled an hour. 



Indelible Ink for Cloth. 

Take soft water two ounces, nitrate silver four drams, spirits harts- 
horn two drams. Mix thoroughly, then add two drams sap green, 
grated fine. Bottle tight, and use with a quill pen. This makes 
one of the most permanent and jet black indelible inks ever made. 
Cloth marked with this should be exposed to the strong heat of the 
sun half an hour, or a warm iron may be run over it. 



A Receipt Worth One Thousand Dollars. 

Take one pound of soda and half a pound of unslaked lime, put 
them in a gallon of water, and let them boil twenty minutes ; let it 
stand till cool ; then drain off, and put it in a stone jug or jar. Soak 
your dirty clothes over night, or until they are wet through ; then 
wring them out and rub on plenty of soap, and in one boiler of clothes 
well covered with water, add one teaspoonful of the washing fluid. 
Boil half an hour briskly, then wash them thoroughly through one 
suds, and rinse well through two waters, and your clothes will look 
better than the old way of washing twice before boiling. This recipe 
is invaluable, and every poor tired woman should try it. With a pat- 
ent tub to do the little rubbing, the washerwoman might take the last 
novel and compose herself on the lounge, and let the washing do 
itself. 



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To Preyent Hair from Falling Out. 

Take one pint of cologne, two ounces tincture of bloodroot, two 
ounces castor oil, half an ounce tincture o'f Spanish fly, and half an 
ounce of Castile soap, grated fine. Mix thoroughly together. Apply 
once a day with a brush. 



Kemedy for Earache. 

Take one teaspoonful each of the juice of grated onions and blood 
beet ; mix and drop several drops in the ear warm ; use it often. If 
the pain is very great, moisten wool or cotton with the same, and put 
it in the ear every ten minutes. Seldom fails to give instant relief. 

Eye Wash for Inflammation of the Eyes. 

Take half a teaspoonful of common fine salt, one-eighth teaspoon- 
ful of white vitriol, hot sage tea one teacupful, mix when cold, wet 
linen cloths, and apply to the eyes often. Should it smart too much 
at first, reduce it with rain or soft water. In all of these cases Liver 
Specific should be taken to cure the blood. 

The Toothache. 

An exchange gives the following : " My dear friend," said H., M I 
can cure your toothache in ten minutes." " How ? how ? " I inquired. 
"Doit In pity." "Instantly," said he. "Have you any alum?" 
"Yes." " Bring it, and some common salt." They were produced. 
My friend pulverized them, mixed them in equal quantities, then wet 
a small piece of cotton, causing the mixed powder to adhere, and 
placed it in my hollow tooth. " There," said he, " if that does not cure 
you I will forfeit my head. You may tell this to every one, and pub- 
lish it every where. The remedy is infallible." It was as he pre- 
dicted. On the introduction of the mixed alum and salt, I experi- 
enced a sensation of coldness, and with it — the alum and salt — I cured 
the torment of the toothache. 

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How to Stop the Flow of Blood. 

Housekeepers, mechanics, and others, In handling tools, knives 
and other sharp instruments, very frequently receive severe cuts, from 
which blood flows profusely and oftentimes endangers life itself. 
Blood may be made to cease flowing as follows : Take the fine dust of 
tea and bind it to the wound — at all times accessible and easily ob- 
tained. After the blood has ceased to flow, laudanum may be advan- 
tageously applied to the wound. Due regard to these instructions 
would save agitation of mind, and running for the surgeon, who 
would probably make no better prescription if he were present. 



Application for Burns and Scalds. 

Mix thoroughly together equal parts of the white of eggs and lin- 
seed or sweet oil ; apply to the parts affected linen cloths saturated 
with this mixture, and change them as often as they become hot and 
uncomfortable. If linseed or sweet oil is not at hand, use molasses 
instead, till oil can be obtained. This application is only to be used 
in scalds and burn3 where the skin is off. In all cases where the skin 
is not removed, cloths wet every five minutes in a mixture made of 
two parts cold water, with one part common spirits, and applied, will 
be of more service. Continue these applications till the burning and 
inflammation are removed, then an ointment made of equal parts bees- 
wax, fresh butter, and resin, melted together, will soon heal the sores 
and remove the scars. Burns and scalds must always be kept exclu- 
ded from the light and air as much as possible, as this increases the 
irritation and prevents their rapid healing. 



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To Destroy Flies. 

To one pint milk add a quarter pound of raw sugar, two ounces of 
ground pepper ; simmer them together eight or ten minutes, and place 
it about in shallow dishes. The flies attack it readily, and are soon 
suffocated. By this method kitchens, <fec, may be kept clear of flies 
all summer, without the danger attending poison. 

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Ladies' Fire-Proof Dresses. 

"Within a very short time two young ladies hare been burnt to 
death, owing to their light muslin dresses catching fire from a lucifer 
match — one in London, the other in Colchester. It ought to be gen- 
erally known that all ladies' light dresses may be made fire-proof at 
a mere nominal cost, by steeping them, or the linen or cotton used 
in making them, in a diluted solution of chloride of zinc. We have 
seen the very finest cambric so prepared held in the flame of a candle, 
and charred to dust without the least flame; and we have been in- 
formed that since Clara Webster, a dancer, was burnt to death, from 
her clothes catching fire on the stage, the muslin dresses of all the 
dancers at the best theaters are made fire-proof. Our manufactu- 
rers should take the hint. 

Superior Black Writing Ink. 

Take powdered nutgalls, four ounces ; gum arabic, one ounce ; sul- 
phate of iron, two ounces ; cold rain water, five teacupfuls. Mix, and 
bottle. Shake them once a day for three weeks, then strain through 
a flannel cloth. This forms the best and most durable black ink in 
use. It never fades or becomes moldy. Black ink should never be 
boiled, as heat destroys the coloring principle and renders it transient 
and pale. 

How to Make Blacking. 

Take of ivory black and treacle each twelve ounces, spermaceti 
oil four ounces, white wine vinegar four pints. Mix. This blacking, 
recommended by Mr. Gray, lecturer on the materia medica, is supe- 
rior in giving leather a finer polish than any of those that are adver- 
tised, as they all contain sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol), which is neces- 
sary to give it the polishing quality, but it renders leather rotten and 
very liable to crack. 

How to Mate Temperance Beer. 

Take three pounds of brown sugar, with one and a half pints of 
molasses, four ounces tartaric acid, two teaspoonfuls of essence of 

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sassafras ; mix in two quarts of boiling water, strain it and cool, when 
it is fit for use. Take two tablespoonfuls for a tumbler two-thirds full 
of water, add a half teaspoonful of soda. You will find it a cooling 
and delightful beverage for summer. 

And here is a recipe for making cream beer : 

To one gallon of warm water take two tablespoonfuls of tartaric 
acid, one bowl of good brown or coffee sugar, two tablespoonfuls of 
ginger, and one cup of yeast. Let it stand over night, and it is fit for 
use by adding a small quantity of soda as you drink it. Try this, and 
see if you do not call it good. 

Apple Jelly. 

Pare, quarter, and completely remove the core of the apples, and 
put in a pot, without water, closely covered, and put into an oven or 
over the fire. When pretty well stewed, the juice is to be squeezed 
out through a cloth, to which a little white of an egg is added, and 
then the sugar ; skim it previous to boiling, and then reduce it to a 
proper consistency, and an excellent jelly will be the product. 



To Take Out Mildew. 

Mix soft-soap with starch powdered, half as much salt and the 
juice of a lemon ; lay it on the part, on both sides, with a brush. Let 
it lie on the grass day and night till the stain comes out. 



Cure for Stammering. 

Those afflicted with this annoyance, at every syllable pronounced 
must tap at the same time with the finger. By so doing the most in- 
veterate stammerer will be surprised to find he can pronounce quite 
fluently ; and by long and constant practice he will pronounce per- 
fectly well. This may be explained in two ways, either by a sympa- 
thetic consentaneous action of the nerves of voluntary motion in the 
finger, and in those of the tongue, which is the most probable ; or it 
may be that the movement of the finger distracts the attention of the 
individual from his speech, and allows a free action of the nerves 
concerned in articulation. 



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To Clean Black Silks. 

To bullock's gall add boiling water sufficient to make it warm, and 
with a clean sponge rub the silk well on both sides, squeeze it well 
out, and proceed again in like manner. Rinse it in spring water, and 
change the water till perfectly clean •, dry it in the air, and pin it out 
on a table ; but first dip the sponge in glue-water, and rub it on the 
wrong side ; then dry it before a fire. 

Thirst Worse than Hunger. 

That disturbance of the general system which is known under the 
name of " Raging Thirst," is far more terrible than that of starvation, 
and for this reason : During absence from food the organism can still 
live upon its own substance, which furnishes all the necessary mate- 
rial; but during abstinence from liquid the organism has no such 
source of supply within itself. Men have been known to endure ab- 
solute privation of food for some weeks • but three days of absolute 
privation of drink (unless in a moist atmosphere) is perhaps the limit 
of endurance. Thirst is the most atrocious torture ever invented. It 
is that which most effectually tames animals. Mr. Astley, when he 
had a refractory horse, always used thirst as the most effective power 
of coercion, giving a little water as a reward for every act of obedi- 
ence. 

To Dip Rusty Black Silks. 

If it requires to be red-dyed, boil logwood ; and in half an hour 
put in the silk, and let it simmer half an hour. Take it out, and dis- 
solve a little blue vitriol and green copperas ; cool the copper; let it 
simmer half an hour, then dry it over a stick in the air. If not red- 
dyed, pin it out, and rinse it in spring water, in which half a tea- 
spoonful of oil of vitriol has been put. Work it about five minutes, 
rinse it in cold water, and finish it by pinning and rubbing it with 
gum water. ■ 

Curious Mode of Silvering Ivory. 

Immerse a small slip of ivory in a weak solution of nitrate of sil- 
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or ; then take it out and immerse it in a tumbler of clear water, and 
expose it, in the water, to the rays of the sun. In about three hours 
the ivory acquires a black color ; but the black surface, on being rub- 
bed, soon becomes changed to a brilliant silver. 

To Make Red Sealing Wax. 

Take of shell-lac, well powdered, two parts, of resin and vermil- 
ion, powdered, each one part. Mix them well together and melt them 
over a gentle fire, and when the ingredients seem thoroughly incorpo- 
rated, work the wax into sticks. Where shell-lac cannot be procured, 
seed-lac may be substituted for it. 

The quantity of vermilion may be diminished without any injury 
to the sealing wax, where it is not required to be of the highest and 
brightest red color ; and the resin should be of the whitest kind, as 
that improves the effect of the vermilion. 



Sea-Sickness Curable. 

I am much surprised at the opinion which is so prevalent of the ut- 
ter incurability of sea-sickness. I believe this opinion to exist among 
the non-medical part of the community from sheer ignorance, and 
amongst sea-going surgeons from a supineness in applying remedies — • 
a fault to which they are rather too subject. In the greater number 
of instances I allow the stomach to discharge its contents once or 
twice, and then, if there is no organic disease, I give five drops of 
chloroform in a little water, and, if necessary, repeat the dose in four 
or six hours. The almost constant effect of this treatment, if con- 
joined with a few simple precautions, is to cause an immediate sensa- 
tion, as it were, of warmth in the stomach, accompanied by almost 
total relief of the nausea and sickness, likewise curing the distressing 
headache, and usually causing a quiet sleep, from which the passen- 
ger awakes quite well. 

Balsamic and Anti-Putrid Tinegar. 

Take rue, sage, mint, rosemary, and lavender, fresh gathered, of ^. 
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upon the herbs a pint of the best white-wine vinegar ; cover the jar 
close, and let it stand eight days in the sun, or near the fire ; then 
strain it off, and dissolve it in an ounce of camphor This liquid, 
sprinkled about the sick chamber, or fumigated, will much revive the 
patient, and prevent the attendants from receiving infection. 



To Make Ink for Printing on Linen with Types. 

Dissolve one part of asphaltum in four parts of oil of turpentine, 
and add lamp-black, or black-lead, in fine powder, in sufficient quan- 
tity to render the ink of a proper consistence for printing with types. 



To Clean Gold Lace. 

Gold lace is easily cleaned and restored to its original brightness 
by rubbing it with a soft brush dipped in roche alum, burnt, sifted to 
a very fine powder. 



To Clean China and Glass, 

The best material for cleaning either porcelain or glassware is full- 
er's earth, but it must be beaten into a fine powder and carefully 
cleared from all rough or hard particles, which might endanger the 
polish of the brilliant surface. 



To Explore Unyentilated Places. 

Light some sheets of brown paper and throw into the well or cav- 
ern ; also, fix a long pipe to a pair of bellows, and blow for some time 
into the place. 



Black Sealing Wax. 

ted for the red wax, only insl 
vory black, 

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substitute the best ivory black, 



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Green Sealing Wax. 



Proceed as in the black; only instead of vermilion Use verdigris 
powdered ; or, where the color is required to be bright, distilled or 
crystals of verdigris. 



Bine Sealing Wax, 

As the above ; only changing the vermilion for smalt well pow- 
dered ; or, for a light blue, verditer may be used ; as may, also, with 
more advantage, a mixture of both. 



Yellow Sealing Wax, 

As the above ; only substituting masticot ; or where a bright color 
ig desired, turpeth mineral, instead of the vermilion. 



Purple Sealing Wax. 

As the red ; only changing half the quantity of vermilion for an 
equal or greater proportion of smalt, according as the purple is de- 
sired to be bluer or redder. 



Uncolored Soft Sealing Wax. 

Take of bees' wax 1 lb., turpentine 8 oz., and olive oil 1 oz. Place 
them in a proper vessel over the fire, and let them boil for some 
time, and the wax will be then fit to be formed into rolls or cakes for 
use. 

Red, Black, Green, Blue, Yellow, and Purple Soft 
Sealing Wax. 

Add to the preceding composition, while boiling, an ounce or more 
of any ingredients directed above for coloring the hard sealing wax ; 
and stir the matter well about, till the color be thoroughly mixed with 
the wax. 

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The proportion of the coloring ingredients maybe increased, if the 
color produced by that here given be not found strong enough. 



Blackberry Wine. 

There is no wine equal to the blackberry wine, when properly made, 
either in flavor or for medical purposes, and all persons who can con- 
veniently do so, should manufacture enough for their own use every 
year, as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is a better 
remedy for bowel diseases. We therefore give the receipt for making 
it, and, having tried it ourselves, we speak advisedly on the subject : 
Measure your berries and bruise them ; to every gallon adding on a 
quart of boiling water. Let the mixture stand twenty-four hours, 
stirring occasionally ; then strain off the liquor into a cask, to every 
gallon adding two pounds of sugar, cork tight, and let it stand till the 
following October, and you will have wine ready for use, without fur- 
ther straining or boiling, that will make lips smack that never 
smacked under similar influences before. 



To Prepare Waterproof Boots. 

Boots and shoes may be rendered impervious to water by the fol- 
lowing composition : Take three ounces of spermaceti, and melt it in 
a pipkin or other earthen vessel over a slow fire; add thereto six 
drachms of India rubber, cut into slices, and these will presently 
dissolve. Then add, seriatim, of tallow eight ounces, hog's lard two 
ounces, amber varnish four ounces. Mix, and it will be fit for use 
immediately. The boots or other material to be treated are to receive 
two or three coats, with a common blacking brush, and a fine polish 
is the result. 



To Make Leather and other Articles Waterproof. 

Dissolve ten pounds of India rubber, cut into bits, the smaller 
the better,, in twenty gallons of pure spirits of turpentine, by putting 
them together into a tin vessel that will hold forty gallons. This ves- 
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fire is to be applied so as to make the water boil, occasionally supply- 
ing -what is lost by evaporation. Here it is to remain until a perfect 
solution of the caoutchouc in the turpentine is obtained. One hun- 
dred and fifty pounds of pure bees' was are now to be dissolved in 
one hundred gallons of pure spirits of turpentine, to which add twenty 
pounds of Burgundy pitch and ten pounds of gum frankincense. The 
solution to be obtained as directed for the caoutchouc. Mix the two 
solutions, and, when cold, add ten gallons of copal varnish, and put 
the whole into a reservoir, diluting it with one hundred gallons of 
lime water, five gallons at a time, and stirring it well up for six or 
eight hours in succession, which stirring must be repeated when any 
of the composition is taken out. If it is wanted black, mix twenty 
pounds of lamp-black with twenty gallons of turpentine (which twenty 
gallons should be deducted from the quantity previously employed) 
and add it previously to putting in the lime water. 

To use it, lay it on the leather with a painter's brush, and rub it in. 



To Clean Silk Stockings. 

Wash with soap and water ; and simmer them in the same for* ten 
minutes, rinsing in cold water. For a blue cast, put one drop of 
liquid blue into a pan of cold spring water, run the stockings through 
this a minute or two, and dry them For a pink cast, put one or two 
drops of saturated pink dye into cold water, and rinse them through 
this. For a flesh color, add a little rose pink in a thin soap liquor, 
rub them with a clean flannel, and calender or mangle them. 



To Avoid Injury from Bees. 

A wasp or bee swallowed may be killed before it can do harm, by 
taking a teaspoonful of common salt dissolved in water. It kills the 
insect, and cures the sting. 

To Stop Cracks in Chimneys. 

To stop cracks in chimneys and stoves, the insertion of stove pipes, 
i open joints in pipes, and all places of the kind : dissolve common salt 
x in water — as much as the water will take up — and thicken it with clean 






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ashes till it becomes a mortar of temper for working. This will hard- 
en in a short time to a firm cement, and is better than mortar for the 
purpose mentioned, and can always be easily obtained. 

Care of Stores and Pipes. 

When stoves are no longer needed, they are quite frequently set 
aside in an out-building, or other out-of-the-way place, with no fur- 
ther thought until again wanted for use. If neglected, the rust of the 
summer may injure them more than the whole winter's wear, particu- 
larly the parts made of sheet iron. They should be kept as free from 
dampness as possible, and occasionally cleaned if rust be observed, 
It is best to apply a coating of linseed oil to the pipes before putting 
them away. It should be done while the pipes are warm (not hot), 
and keep at a low temperature five or six hours. This is said to impart 
a fine luster, and prevent rusting. 



Medical Uses of Salt. 

In many cases of disordered stomach a teaspoonful of salt is a 
certain cure for colic. Put a teaspoonful of salt in a pint of cold 
water, drink it, and go to bed. The same will revive a person who 
has had a heavy fall. In an apoplectic fit no time should be lost in 
pouring down salt and water if the patient swallow, if not, the head 
must be sponged with cold water until the sense returns, when salt 
will completely restore the patient from lethargy. Salt will expej 
worms if used in food in moderate quantities. It aids digestion. 
Much salt meat is injurious. 



Wall Paper. 

To clean wall paper use wheat bran. 






All Letters for Prof. Hamilton should be addressed thus : 
R. L,. HAMILTON, Id.D., 
Post Office Box No. 4952, 

New York City. 

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